Value Systems exist in different forms such as social values, organizational values, human values & personal values. Often these are defined in Citizen's Charters, Code of Conduct and as Leadership Attributes. All forms of value systems are largely based on ethics, morality and virtues. Over the years, values have been corrupted by over-ambition. This trend needs to be arrested.

An attempt has been made below in the form of a poem. It calls for an introspection (PEEP WITHIN) to understand what has gone wrong.

Periodic self analysis by all and an exemplary conduct by Leaders at all levels in the society is, perhaps, the only antidote to stop further decay & decline in value systems.

PEEP WITHIN

When value systems change

And morals too decline;

When demoniac forces grow

To dominate the mind.

When materialistic urges build up

To squeeze the trust of time;

And perversions invade the intellect

Of unbridled minds.

When principles get replaced

By conveniences undefined;

And Hypocrisy infiltrates

To make the learned blind.

When wisdom sheds its grace

And virtue gets maligned;

When faith in systems degenerates

And rogues operate from behind.

When everyone looks crazy,

And claims he has no time;

To conscience or conscientiousness

He doesn't want to bind.

And still he wants to climb the ladder

Leaving everyone behind;

Each failure shakes his pride

No success makes him kind.

Who can make him taste the truth

Whose tongue is not refined ?

An attempt for a 'PEEP WITHIN'

May tell him he is blind.

Each one of us needs to alter

Our attitudes I find;

The horrid, clumsy thoughts we have

Churn out polluted minds.

Values such as Love, Truth and Duty,

Do not wither with time;

One has to earn the Grace of God

And keep them as sublime.

His Grace is there, the conscience knows,

For loving hearts and humble minds;

For ego-less and devoted ones,

Who glide over the tides of time.

Comments by the readers on this article may help to refine author's perceptions.

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