Thursday, March 4, 2010

THE MAN WITH A GOLDEN HEART


There was this man who recently got rich

He was a bank employee

He hit a jackpot in the national lottery

That made him as happy as he could ever be


He now wanted to invest this money

So that his money could grow

He wanted to select a bank employee who was poor

Whose financial capabilities are low


He wanted to do this because he knew

That the poor employee would have a target of his own

And if this poor employee exceeds his target

In his life, the seeds of happiness will be sown


So he went in search of a poor humble guy

And he met many people on the way

He travelled in every direction he could

From mountain tops to flowing bay


He met all kinds of people in the process

Some were rude, some were confident, some were smart

But on his way he did not meet any human

Who had a Golden Heart


This man who was yet to be found

Was a man who cries secretly in the night

In the day this man works hard and smiles

In preparation of life’s big fight


So one night when the rich man was in a cab

The cab driver fit the bill

He had a life with pains as big as mountains

He had happiness as good as nil


Still the cab driver used to smile all day

To keep his customers happy

By day he was a bank employee

By night he was called a cabbie


The rich man befriended this poor cabbie

And gave him his investment to handle

He smiled and a tear ran down his cheek

And then he started to fumble


That night he cried with tears of joy

God’s hand had touched his heart

His life had changed for good henceforth

He graduated to a jet from a cart


He now held a high position in bank

He now genuinely smiled

He was thankful to that rich man

Who abled the cabbie to bring up his own child


We too can find a poor man ourselves

We too can play a wonderful part

We too can find that man with a smile

The man with a Golden Heart


- Kenneth Savio Fernandes

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