Shock treatments

The brother of Albert Nobel was dead.

All newspapers by mistake had published

The obituary of Albert Nobel.

It went like ‘the merchant of deaths is dead.’

A great shock to him, who minted huge wealth

By selling dynamites for the use in war.

The shock changed him; he made over his wealth

To a noble cause: The Nobel Prizes

Kalinga War shocked Emperor Asoka

When he saw the tears of the war victims.

The shock changed him; he followed Buddhism,

And took a vow to wage no war, no killings.

The Cancer in him gave him a great shock,

Which made him quit smoking of five decades.

A shock can touch one’s subconscious mind

And alter one’s stubborn motivation .

05.04.2014