Truth and the Myths | Page 7

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"Time and tide do not wait for anyone";?After all, who else waits here for someone?
"Marriages are made in heaven":?Spouse to spouse should not make it a hell!
One who cannot use his brain?Will live only under strain!
Don't deride anybody as weakling,?Today's mendicant may be tomorrow's king!
Only that could be yours, which you earn;?What you gained, did you earn?
Man gave God multiple hands* in His picture?To depict the Lord as the Superpower.?(* Hindu gods are depicted with multiple hands)
Accustomed to, even pitch darkness?Could be of perceivable brightness!
Say one thing and do something else,?Is the first step towards success!
Man is prisoner of his own mind;?None else can bail him out of the bond.
May be "Money is what money does",?But it can't buy love, a single dose.
Wealth of learning is intangible?Wealth of cunningness is tangible!
"Thy kingdom come": it is my prayer,?Kindly name me Thy Prime Minister!
"Give us this day our daily bread" �C?A good lot to last a decade!
Hawks may fly even supine,?Over heap of gold coin!
Criminals are not punished;?Idolised, they are worshipped!
Greatness is quality innate,?Which people try to cultivate!
There should be a river that flows?For anyone to swim across!
Lifeless granite idols?Are gods that save our souls!
All we see and hear?Are all lies, my dear!
Heaven and hell are created by man's talent;?And he can make it anywhere, any moment!
Insulting is the habit of the insolent;?Ignoring insult is the trait of modest!
"Work is worship" rule of the past;?But, now it is "Work for profit"!
Dressed up, spraying fragrant perfumes and made up faces,?Men know not, they are factories of stinking feces.
All the beauty of women is only skin deep,?To enjoy it, men should penetrate further deep!
Nature lavished its resources on man:?Man lavishes his resources in vain!
Human beauty is solely external,?Once skinned, it is only stinking kernel.
Whether offered to Lord or not, flower?Withers away, in hours twenty-four!
Youngsters have "short-sight";?Elders have "long-sight"!
A blind can guide you,?In total darkness!
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 �C?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.
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