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!