COMPLAINTS AND COMPLIMENTS

COMPLAINTS AND COMPLIMENTS

Complaints, if  biased and discriminatory, strike one as pounding hammers,

Under the unbearable buffets of complaints, one suffocates and stammers!

Under the crushing and demoralizing complaints, one gets shaken and broken

Instead of proving as antidotes, they create wounds irreparable and unspoken!

Hark! Complaints, like purifying fire, burn the rusts of one’s misdemeanour

Complaints, like insecticides, help one to grow healthier, and yield  more

Complaints, like injections, protect one’s mind against temptations meaner

Complaints cleanse the water of one’s thoughts, like the bleaching powder!

Compliments, like heavenly showers, revive one’s lost, defunct spirits,

Compliments, like nourishing diets, have many more unmatched merits!

Compliments can miraculously change a barren land into a green oasis,

Compliments, like spontaneous boons, pour vim, zest, gusto and bliss!

Hark! Undeserved compliments can often do more harm than good

Exorbitant compliments, like bribes, seduce and pervert the mood

Excessive compliments, like alluring, sticky candies, lead to moral cavaties

Pampering compliments, like yummy fast food , spoil one’s life’s Beauties!

Thus, let’s ever use and accept complaints and compliments judiciously

Let’s be all masters over our unrestrained instincts that spur us irresistibly!

Let’s ever be loyal, obedient slaves to the pure and conscientious Prudence

So thatwe can add to our mortal and  momentary lives an Immortal Sense!

©Shankar D Mishra 18.03.2018

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