A farmers’revolution: lines in thread
Born few years before start of our Republic,
He went to school with 4 siblings,
in a village some 2 miles from his residence,
Whenever field’s labours could spare him.
When he came to man’s estate at seventeen,
Partition left him with two acres of the Pristine, 👇
He went to school with 4 siblings,
in a village some 2 miles from his residence,
Whenever field’s labours could spare him.
When he came to man’s estate at seventeen,
Partition left him with two acres of the Pristine, 👇
He knew he would always be poor,
Unless he took fortune past tradition’s door.
Sold off his prime land in nature’s food
Bowl,
Bought himself a piece of the desert south,
Pulled out old stones , gnarled tree stumps,
Created ten acre farm from next to nothing. 👇
Unless he took fortune past tradition’s door.
Sold off his prime land in nature’s food
Bowl,
Bought himself a piece of the desert south,
Pulled out old stones , gnarled tree stumps,
Created ten acre farm from next to nothing. 👇
Went back to his village, married his
Sweetheart,
Became role model for enterprising upstarts,
Many a lad followed his footsteps,
They grew paddy and wheat in an arid desert.
2 boys and a girl, he sent to village school,
But now he worried about their future too, 👇
Sweetheart,
Became role model for enterprising upstarts,
Many a lad followed his footsteps,
They grew paddy and wheat in an arid desert.
2 boys and a girl, he sent to village school,
But now he worried about their future too, 👇
Decided he would sell half his land,
So his kids would not lack for life’s
Maximand.
They lived apart, his wife and he,
The wife put the children through college
Till,
The eldest a software engineer did make,
The second took off in life with MBA. 👇
So his kids would not lack for life’s
Maximand.
They lived apart, his wife and he,
The wife put the children through college
Till,
The eldest a software engineer did make,
The second took off in life with MBA. 👇
The girl they wished to protect but she
Wouldn’t comply,
After masters in physics she was off to fly,
Now scientist at a national laboratory,
Her father as proud of the rebel, as she.
I have not embellished any truths here,
You can see how enterprise makes quantum leaps where👇
Wouldn’t comply,
After masters in physics she was off to fly,
Now scientist at a national laboratory,
Her father as proud of the rebel, as she.
I have not embellished any truths here,
You can see how enterprise makes quantum leaps where👇
Fortunes changes when you fortune dare,
Foresight, courage, and hard work to spare.
They are builders of nations, creators of weatlth,
Thus work miracles: not guile or stealth,
Their life’s work isn’t ended though,
They live on their half farm as before.👇
Foresight, courage, and hard work to spare.
They are builders of nations, creators of weatlth,
Thus work miracles: not guile or stealth,
Their life’s work isn’t ended though,
They live on their half farm as before.👇
It takes a generation to leapfrog poverty’s Trap,
Education for the kids, only chance you have,
Does that explain why the value learning so,
True entrepreneurs they, lonely furrows they Plough.
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Education for the kids, only chance you have,
Does that explain why the value learning so,
True entrepreneurs they, lonely furrows they Plough.
🙏
Please share if you read it and liked it.
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