O GOD! PLEASE TEACH ME THIS

O GOD! PLEASE TEACH ME THIS

O God! Please let me not wish anyone a morning good

While I am cooking for him in my heart-tub poison food,

While I am inflaming with the fire of rage, and a motto crude

While I am really inside jealous, malicious, peevish and rude!

O God! Please let me not pretend to be overjoyed and glad

While shaking hollow hands with a friend or an acquaintance,

While inside I am really sadistic, intolerant, envious and sad

At his praise-worthy progress and commendable performance!

O God! Please let me not feed anyone with the diet of hallucination

Let me not clothe anyone with a gorgeous apparel of deception,

Let me not construct for anyone an illusive castle of reverie

Let me not assure anyone of fetching Salvation by a fake, fatal ferry!

So, O God! You may teach me so that whatever sublime I may  preach,

But, let me first learn to practise, “None to betray, and never to breach!”

©Shankar D Mishra 21.07.2017

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