Truth and the Myths | Page 9

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 fianc��e 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!
THE TRUTH THAT IS DEATH
Living man hopes for a future, best;?Dying man repents on futile past!
Where do the senses go on man's death??None gone did return to tell that truth!
Why shower rose petals over the tomb??Can its fragrance reach deep into its womb?
However fast, through life, we race,?Death will follow us at the same pace!
Dead, we may not be re-born, as legends say;?Our souls, caught in condoms, will be thrown away!?(* Hindu tenets say that every soul has rebirth)?Know, death is not at all a calamity,?It's life's destination at eternity!
If you know wherefrom you have come here,?You will also know, death takes you where!
With death, we all have a date;?When, where and how, we know not.
The one who was terribly afraid of death?Reclines calm and composed on its gruesome berth!
While poor dies like a dog;?The rich dies like a Lord!
Obituary says: the dead attained heaven;?Seems, he sent back a reaching note from heaven!
Man's fear of death?Is source of God.
If now and today I die and go?I'll join manes dead aeons ago!
Blooms meant for propagation?Deck the body of dead person!
The Lord, with His aesthetic touch?Created world, a beauty as such,
FREEDOM
Freedom is not growing wings,?It lies in breaking the strings!
We spent our fifty years of freedom?Building, for our leaders, their kingdom!
We struggled for freedom?And won freedom to struggle!
Fifty years of freedom?Reminds, we need freedom!
We won freedom to put minority in position?Sidelining the majority into opposition!
We won freedom in midnight,?That's why we are still in darkness!
Fifty years ago, we won freedom?To vote against our own freedom!
OUR POLITY
Flying aloft on a helicopter?I can fathom depth of deluge water!
You can vote somebody to power,?But can't recall him soon thereafter.
Tolerance of all other's faith is secularism;?Intolerance of other's faith is seclusionism.
Faltering step in business, you will fall;?Failing step in politics, you will be tall.
Postal stamps are meant for damaging?Faces of leaders by ink stamping.
Political power is real kick,?Under which man stabs at his own back.
I am a V.V.I.P., because I am, er,?A cousin of friend of son of the minister!
Sprawling cremation sites of leaders, sanctified,?Soon will turn the capital, city of the dead.
Democracy is a process by which?Certain men are voted to become rich.
Political leader gives lot of opportunity?To all his followers to make black money aplenty.
Sitting in office, using office, I made money;?Quitting office, wrote of office, and still made money!
All political parties split, split and splitLike?nuclear fission, to gain explosive might?
Best way to hold party members together?Is to make each one of them Prime Minister!
Shameless face has a ribless tongue?Extemporising non-stop harangue!
Born with rich heritage,?Deride rich in knowledge!
The fool who has no seat?Runs for the throne to sit!?Nay, I am not born a tomfool?For people to vote me to rule!
Politician is not magician;?He is only a tactician!
I live here, in a world of politics;?Only politics within my heart, ticks!
The sect that make lie a truth?Are born rulers of this earth!
I say: 'the law will take its own course';?But, in my case, it can take off course!
Nay, not tainted by a scam,?It's the colour of my skin!
I'm public servant doing all your chores?And, for living, made only thousand Crores*?(*Ten million)
You can change the court?But not the decree!
Elections made it possible:?Untouchables are now touchable!
Between the playwright and heroine?Who's the superstar playing hero?
In politics everywhere, election we conduct.?For popular votes, only unpopular contest!
Try holding tricolour Indian flag?From becoming multicolour tag!
WHITE COLLAR
Two men could do the job of one;?The dexterous does the tens' alone!
Salary is for sitting by the table,?To do work, pay handsel, as per table!
The playful could be studious as well,?For, both call for devotion and skill.
Public office always is for private profit;?Treasure hunters! Take to public service soonest!
Perfection is a serious deformity?For it is not money making quality!
If corruption is the curse of society,?It's boon to