Friendship, the best culture

a poem by Ramesh T A

The intruders plundered the riches of the nations and spread their culture;
They introduced their language and religion through schools and hospitals;
They developed science and technology and reaped materialistic benefits;
When the people woke up they split the nations and left them to fight themselves ever.

The spiritually developed Eastern nations struggle to come up economically and socially;
Ignorance, disease and poverty keep the liberated nations suppressed, depressed and oppressed;
The heavy population of the new nations starve, suffer and struggle;
In addition to this, the exploiter nations spread pollution and disease
And advise the developing nations to protect environment for world safety!

The long suffered nations readily succumbed to the tricks of the communist intruders;
Wherever communist ideals dominated there all stagnation deep rooted;
The communist dictatorship put the nations under deep despair and deprivation;
At long last again many nations woke up to see reality eye to eye and
Threw out communist dictators to breathe liberty with hopes of prosperity.

After the two World Wars the modern world broke into two blocs:-
One half supporting America and the other half supporting Russia;
The militarisation of the two blocs vied with each other;
Land, water and air became the testing places for the stock-piling of weapons!

The spy net works watched each other the installations of the war weapons;
Fear, suspicion and envy ever kept alive cold war between the two blocs;
Many governments were toppled and the puppet rulers installed then and there;
Through their satellite nations they fought with each other often to test their might.

The stage came when the world destroying weapons the two Super Powers developed
And then only realised that both could not survive if they used such weapons;
They realised too it was better to settle their differences through friendship;
Then friendship became the best culture to be adopted among world nations.