THINK IT OVER
Often myth sounds truth
And truth likens myth!
What happens if truth and lie vie?
The lie will stand up and truth lie!
Wailed aloud as you came, availed eventful life, Prevailed, you will leave leaving others in wailing grief!
You correct yourself,
The rest will mend itself!
You can assert your right if you are right;
Only can falter when you are at fault!
Choose who loves you
Than whom you love!
We can reap only what we sow;
Fortunate few reap from mere show!
If you work with your hands, looking up,
You will rise unto heavens, and up!
Camphor burns to smoke leaving not even ash and odd,
Emitting fragrance of selfless oblation to the Lord!
Note down, nothing will go into nothing;
If you have nothing you will have nothing!
Let you be punished for default,
But never be it for deceit.
I have rich learning, culture and manners;
But beset with poor food, health and finance!
Be prepared all the while for bitter curses;
Boons may come, once in a while, as bonuses!
Better to soothe the victim of your ill deed
Than to confess before Minister ordained!
I'm a lighted but unburnt wick of yesterday;
Don't throw me out when am willing to burn today.
I had pleasant dreams about life;
It all turned a nightmarish strife!
Muezzins have to call from Minaret
To arouse our prayer instinct?
Which gauge can measure acuteness of pain,
Depth of love and degree of emotion?
Present life is a present of bygone past,
Only purest present presents future best.
Statistics establishes a lie numerically;
The opportunist takes advantage of it cunningly!
Swinging justice's scale
Is offered for sale!
"Fowl of air sow not reap not":
They feed on other's grain and fruit!
"Seek and ye shall find", the Lord sayeth;
But we seek what we can't find on earth!
"Thy faith hath made thee whole";
Now, money maketh all
"Put new wine into new bottles";
Put new thought into newborn minds!
Man boasts, he could land on moon,
But could he, as on land, walk on?
Coin is minted round to roll
From hand to hand, that's its role.
Confinement is bondage,
Even in golden cage!
Someone's mistake of yesterday
Might be social rite of today.
Poverty cannot be alleviated
By preaching philosophy concentrated!
When thy begging bowl is full and flowing over,
You will feel, you are the God, reigning world over!
All of us work for and hope
But only few reach the top!
Man is slave of circumstances
Created by his circumstandees*
(* Don't look for this word in a Dictionary, for it is
coined).
Invention of Zero inspired calculation;
Zero as a wheel had incited revolution!
"Early bird catches the worm";
Early worm walks unto doom!
Resourceful are not successful;
Successful are not resourceful!
To err is human;
To pardon is humane!
Why should purest of all rivers, Ganges, holy
Desecrate itself merging into sea wholly?
Even on udder full of milk,
Mosquito fancies blood to suck!
The event that will make you happy
Might make many others unhappy!
"Drops of water make an ocean",
Drops that drip dry even ocean!
Idle mind is not a devil's workshop
At times, poetry flows from it non-stop!
The wick will burn to ashes in no time
If the lamp lacks oil that keeps the flame.
While ringing in, with gaiety, the New Year,
Grow and show, you are one more year wiser.
You would become only what you can
And not that you wish or others plan!
Despite absorbing hottest rays of Sun,
Moon always emits only coolest sheen!
Moneys black and white, vie each other,
Even within sacred temple coffer!
Do whatever you have to, today, here and now
For, tomorrow is a dream, may not come true.
He who keeps company, in lone dark night,
If dead suddenly, turns object of fright!
With a begging bowl, I vie to reach the gate
Of palace I built* and lived in my birth last!
(* Hindus believe that the soul of a dead person will
have rebirth elsewhere)
What anybody could give in abundance
To others, in time of distress, is advice!
Know, thou were not born nor shall die at thy wish;
Thence, time in between is not thine to lavish!
Don't try to throw stones from glass roof,
Unless the glass is bullet proof!
Disease is always like a guest
Comes at unexpected moment!
You can kick even the air afar,
If it is put in a ball of rubber!
Water flows only on slopes
The life flows solely on hopes!
Wondrous monument for departed wife Tajmahal.
Could she ever enjoy that architectural marvel?
Hot morning news in evening turns cold;
Tomorrow history and, then, tales old!
Building castles in the air, does the idle;
Won't building a hut on the land be ideal!
When thy name scales thro' the ladder of fame,
Know, it is someone else did give thee a name!
One who feels ignorant only can gain knowledge
As empty vessel has enough space for storage!
Life is like a brittle sheet of glass:
Transparent, breaks on being careless!
Even dirty efflux from stable
Holy Ganges laps with no grumble!
"Rolling stone gathers no moss"
It will only deplete its mass!
You have something, you will feel a lot you have not;
When you have not any, will not feel you have not.
Only thro' crooked stairs and power-lifts
Man can reach unto enviable heights!
Souls of amoeba and an elephant,
By mass and shape would not be different!
Nudity is not sex appealing;
It lies in dressing half-revealing!
Man has no permanent foe or friend,
For he has an ever-changing mind.
Woman's bosom is Ocean of Milk for the baby;
Reposing bed, to compose, for grief-stricken hubby!
I don't long for fame as son of my father;
But, indeed, wish to earn name as an author.
"None in this world is perfect" a diction;
But, everyone claims to be an exception!
Man slays gentle peacock to gather its quill
And present a "peacock dance" to show his skill!
The needy nurtures no formality;
Not patience to wait till maturity!
Any event, however long, should end;
Even God's incarnations have ended!
Thoughtless act in split moment
Gets man long years in punishment.
Poor man's mistake could be a crime;
Rich man's crime could be a mistake!
The evil is not evil always;
And the good need not be good always!
One's internal and external beauty
Is assessed by external entity!
If you don't do what you have to do,
Someone will do what you may not do!
Between man and man, man is the enemy;
Man to man, managing man is difficult!
If you go on doing good, God will do you good;
If the God doesn't do good, none would say good God!
If you look once again, what you have done earlier,
After years, you will feel you could have done better!
If you shy ever to make a debut,
Opportunities will fight shy of you!
No wonder continental drift theories stay;
Look at the neighbouring nations drift away!
Woman is undaunted force;
Man controls it by mere farce!
While being poor is not a bane;
Becoming rich is not a boon.
Why need middle men
Between God and man?
All my vices will be adored
If I have immense wealth amassed!
Something is not better than nothing at all;
For, nothing is better than something awful!
Who does not spend, have to spend;
Who spends may not have to spend!
Taxes are levied to feed Government employees
Still they tax public to add spice to luxuries!
Somewhere a tearful farewell.*
Here, a cheerful arrival.
(Hindus believe in re-birth. The dead soul will be born
somewhere else, quite often, immediately).
Truth shall prevail
When all lies fail!
Rome was not built in a day;
But it was burnt in a day!
We don't do what we could do when needed to do,
And try to do what others do which we can't do!
I did not understand what my dad told me;
My son doesn't understand what I tell him!
I should now be loving my neighbour,
A beautiful dame moved in next door!
Talk never and you will have friends never;
Talk ever, friends will be foes forever!
You are not a made yourselves entity,
Society carved out your personality!
If you are fond of the fag's lasting puff,
You'll take last breath in breathless cough!
Man will not learn good things if taught,
Sure will learn all the vices untaught!
On God of heavens I was reposing my faith;
And failed, 'cause I ignored all little gods of earth!
God hath created man to live a century,
But didn't give a performance guarantee!
When I was a child, father was my hero;
As I grew up, to me, he is a zero!
Flesh and fish become delicacies
By cooking them with vegetables!
Lo! How I lost huge sums in interest
Because I had no money to invest!
Only virtuous will own
All the wrongs they have done!
Books are loved by knowledge seekers,
And are shelved by antique seekers!
Hindu tenets say, treat thy guest as god;
We shall, if he pays in Dollars for food!
From financier I don't get aid;
From fiancĪ¹e I may get AIDS!
All that had come were bad,
And all to come are good!
All I do is good;
At times it turns bad!
I wish, all that untoward happened today
Should have been a nightmare of dead yesterday.
This birth, I'm the wheel beneath, carrying all load;
Grant me next birth at least as steering wheel, O' Lord!
The blind shows the way
For those gone astray!
When two cons bat and dozens bet,
Million fools squat around as bait!
Neither the born nor the borne
Know why, on earth, they have born,
Bonehead who has no seat
Pounces upon throne to sit!
One who turns lie a truth
Is fit to reign the earth!
God is moulded into an idol
For shaping Him a lifeless ideal!
All the dreams I dreamt about
Came true as nightmares aghast!
Even if others love, if you don't love,
You can't feel the love, for loving is love!