A Look At Life - 54

    Loyalty

Loyalty to what and whom?

To an individual

Who does not understand its meaning

To a relationship 

That stands on permanent interests and hypocrisy 

To an idea 

That misguides and takes one to the brink of a calamity 

Or to something else?

When loyalty makes one blind to the reality 

When based on negative reasons and unscientific reasoning, 

How hazardous it is instead of fulfilling, it kills the man within 

In roles and relationships man lives 

Remaining true and doing justice to one's roles,

Individuals, relationships and values in thoughts,

Words and deeds

Is what define loyalty

It is never a blind commitment to naked self-interest,

Dogmas, superstitions and the forces and

Beliefs, attitudes and endeavours that are against truth and justice

Man and humanity

Responding to the larger society

Its needs and values,

Collective conscience and betterment of humanity 

Is what mean loyalty 

To remain loyal to others

You are to be loyal to yourself

To the man within, to your inner voice 

The values you inculcated

The more you are loyal to yourself 

The more you are loyal to the rest

To truth, love, peace and brotherhood 

When you are true and loyal to your conscience,

You make others loyal and become a better man

People and ideologies will

Come and go, relationships are cultivated, institutions grow and decline,

But one's loyalty is beyond these, always to the betterment of humanity

Loyalty to an individual, to

An institution, towards an ideology, man and his whims and caprices

Irrespective of the goals they strive, means they adopt, which your inner you

Never accept is but disloyalty to man and the society 

Let your loyalty be full and complete 

To your love and relationships, ideas and idols 

And anything you consider true and genuine 

Loyalty lies in listening to

The voice of humanity, in a commitment to ideas, endeavours and

Relationships that are an integral part of man and his development,

Always in tune with decency

And morality, law of the land and betterment of society