Are you French or Indonesian
Or Korean or Papua New Guinean
Or Nicaraguan?
Are you black or brown
Or white or yellow?
Are you short or tall
Or able-bodied
Or disabled?
Are you dressed in suit and tie
Or just in rags?
Are you a cabinet minister, president,
Business magnate
Or man in the street?

It really doesn’t matter.

No, it doesn’t matter
(In the values scale),
Any one of these:
It matters very little
Or not at all.

What mostly matters
Is the heart ?
How big it is,
How stretchable,
Whether it’s purely physical
Or something more as well;
Whether it can reach out
And touch the mind;
Whether it has learnt the art
Of flying with the wind
To the far ends of the earth.

What mostly matters
Is the heart.

© by Gautam Sen.
Used with the author’s permission.