What do I have?

An old sea man, with his beautiful collection of rock pieces looks at the passing inquisitive tourist and with an enigmatic smile that is deeply self satisfied  proclaims, "All I have is rocks.."
 'I ain't got no house/Ain't got no car/I got me a 1950 Les Paul guitar/Wont you take it mister. Banker'- lyrics of a Lynyrd Skynyrd song."All I have is my music... you might as well put a price on that.."

I stood looking at the water front that stood between me and the shining lights of the city. This wasn't the all powerful ocean, this was just a stretch of backwaters. The waves didn't surf and foam. They rippled and danced all synchronized. There was something in the sound of the waters. It was like the sound of the oar cutting through the waters. An invisible hand rowing across, creating all these gentle waves. It was perhaps some wandering soul looking in the waters of life, for that 'pearl'. For the answer to the question, 'what do you have to offer'?

Things that should change

I slept reading about the financial frauds of the developed world, the 'subjectivity' that shrouds financial transactions as you become the JP Morgans' and the Barclays' of the world. There is a causality like the Lehman brothers, which lives and breathes for hundred of years and then becomes illiquid and disappears from the economic world.
And then I woke to the cruel reality of my country, developing countries where lives are lost in freak accidents. Life and death is the fraud of developing countries. It happens on every scale, human error, natural calamity, terrorism. It is not to say that developed countries are immune to any such occurrences. Its just that our societies have become so passive that day after day such instances occur and we brace each one with a stoic face and move on with the guilty roaming scot-free. It is here that a Bhopal gas tragedy trial can stretch that long that the guilty die a natural death before being proven guilty. Why this apathy? Why have we become so numb? What will wake us up from our reverie?
We are a argumentative society, why do all our arguments turn mute when it is time to bring the guilty to the book. When I look at societies here, i find them more vociferous in communicating their disapproval. There is a 'system' mindset, which tells, this is how things are suppose to work and there is minimum tolerance for deviation. Our society is deviant is all regards it is hard to find a working system somewhere. There has to be a method to madness for survival and we somehow miss it in the entire conundrum of events around us.
My heart goes out for the families of people who lost their loved ones in the AMRI hospital fire in Kolkata. I witnessed two major fires in the last three years that I spent in the city. The city has places which seem as if there are waiting for an inferno, waiting for a tragedy to happen. Is it now about time to raze outlived structures and lay the foundation of new structures and new societies.. I don't want to be the bard who sings paeans of change, I want to figure out how to bring in the change.