Truth and the Myths | Page 8

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!

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