DIVIDED BY RELIGION

  UNITED BY HEART…

Heart transplants, never a  poor man’s  impulse by first voice .

Medicines, neither cure all  ailments nor offer the full course,

Not everyone could afford surgery, currency, the final choice,

Many feel its  fatal pinch, before bowing to the fate’s invoice. 

 A middle aged Brahmin, was suffering a “stroke” and in shock,

Dissecting aneurysm of an artery  of his brain, held him aback,

One fine morning, he lay unconscious, the family was in shock,

Was declared brain dead, the worst end no one will take stock.

Breaking the news, a tough thing to deliver to every household,

A sudden death in life and vigor, no one on earth, can behold,

 An young family was inconsolable, the widow was too bold,

Thinking of  an organ donation, hardest for an orthodox fold.

A will to donate her beloved’s heart, in her worst hour  of grief,

Large hearted nod  from a lady, amidst laments, to say in brief,   

The thought of helping an ailing heart to beat, was a big relief,

 For a staunch Christian man, miles away, breathing all in  belief.

A .prayer in lips, he was counting his days from a village tenure,

Was in bad shape, from a dilated and damaged heart in failure,

Matching hearts, are hard to come by, financing is still  worse ,

Coffers swelled from all sources, state too sharing the resource.

Donor hearts cannot withstand a travel to find a new enclosure,

Obligatory tests and surgery, with utmost care is the cynosure,

Four hours is the time limit, air lift was the sole option, for cure,

Donor heart from the dead, to reach the destination, for sure.

 

 New rules were framed, humanity triggering an aerial venture

Few hundred miles, the state and laws aiding a large measure,

Emirates based Muslim group  sharing the rest for completion

Finally a Hindu heart started to beat in a Christian bretheren.

Unity in diversity, this Indian paradox  offering a  gist of life,

Lessons learned, impossible is never a word for a gift of life

Medical men hold their heads high in a moment of triumph

Humanity wins over religious battles avoiding a future strife.

 

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