Thursday, 10 August 2017

O GOD! LET ME BE MUNDANELY UNIMPORTANT!

O GOD! LET ME BE MUNDANELY UNIMPORTANT!


Yes, the importance of being important is much less
Than cultivating the rare virtues of sublime goodness!
The importance of being a triumphant in Chess
Is not so important as winning the interminable Life’s Race!

Yes, the importance of being a sycophantic Orator is much less
Than deriving, from practising bitter-sweet restraint, eternal solace!
The importance of amassing transitory, exhaustible wealth is much less
Than despite being ragged and poor, putting on an invaluably Decent Dress!

Yes, the importance of being materialistically best is much less
Than, to attain celestial Rest, when He does bounteously bless!
The importance of being an affluent, but fleeting and greedy guest
Is much less important than lasting Contentment’s lustrous Taste!

O God! Let me be mundanely unimportant to feel Thy Blissful Divine Importance
Alas! But for which, any other so-called importance sheds essence and substance!



©Shankar D Mishra 10.08.2017
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