Books

It tells what we know
so we own
It shows what we don't
so we own
When our kids fly
we buy
When they fail
we buy
If leaders lead
we read
If they lose
we read

Books, like foods, build
and burn
It's why we wonder
about buying
and burials
Books, like tools, make
and mar
It's why we ponder
over reading
and rituals
Books, like fools, bake
and take
It's why we thunder
when writers wake
to rake

Books - a path
and pathfinder to halls
Books - a wrath
and wrathsmasher for all
Your take, your stake
and stake of takes
Brook, and be bookish
Brush, and be bushy
It's why we live
in books and looks
Read!

Parents must now arise and rise to the challenge of less-book in homes, schools and lives of their kids and wards. The IT age is taking its toll. We ask for balance and beauty. Today, many kids can't read properly or write proficiently. It is verging on an epidemic. Short-cuts and sms-language undermine their communicative faculty and cognitive essence. We must worry. Or soon, we will be sorry.

Many leaders do not read. Decision making now suffers on the altar of whims and speeches are getting bland, less memorable, without quotable quotes. At all levels! Where are the BOOKS??