O GOD, LET ME BE HONEST!

O GOD, LET ME BE HONEST!

Yes, honesty is duly paid in the long run

No fire has power strong enough to it burn!

Ah! It is the still water that is ever in calm action

Let’s all learn by heart from its great inculcation!

Honesty is often shrugged off for its bitter taste

Oh! Its opponent, at first sight, appears ever sweetest!

One repents if one shuns the former in a rash haste

For, the latter is an indecorous, fleeting and fatal guest!

Alas! Honesty is often a prey to distrust and derision

Who has so much patience and time for butter to churn?

Alas! Honesty is often stifled at a tender and fresh dawn

Though the culprit, in vain, does repent at last and mourn!

O God, let me be honest in spite of being worldly a failure

Let me, in Thy just, honest vigil, end my successful tenure!

* in the long run at last

* inculcation – act of putting in lessons repeatedly

* shrugged off – dismissed as being unimportant/disregarded

* opponent – rival/opposite/dishonesty

*shuns - turns away from/leaves

* former – previous/the first between the two/ here, honesty

* rash haste careless hurry/speed

* latter – the second between the two/here, dishonesty

* indecorous – violating or breaking good manners

* fleeting - short-lived

*fatal – deadly/ serious

* prey – victim

* distrust and derision - doubt and mockery/scorn

* for butter to churn – to churn butter means to follow the path of honesty to be blessed by peace

* stifled – suffocated/choked

* tender and fresh dawn – in the very beginning

* culprit – dishonest people

* in vain - without success

* repent - be sorry/ feel sorrow

* mourn - weep for

* worldly a failure –unsuccessful in the material world

* just –right/impartial

* vigil – watch

* successful tenure – fruitful life

©Shankar D Mishra 17.06.2017

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