Saturday, 4 November 2017

DON’T

DON’T

Don’t drop a mass of rock of chaos into a still lake of the mind,
Don’t swim on the surface of superficiality, valued pearls, to find;
Don’t grind the trifling husks to garner any grain of essence,
Don’t cook nothingness on the fire of anger to serve non-sense!

Don’t dive headlong into a dry and waterless river of pettiness,
Don’t jump to a hasty, raw and blind conclusion of emptiness;
Don’t beat about the bushes to pluck the soft roses of worth,
Don’t butcher anyone’s happiness to muster your own Mirth!

Don’t live in a world of hollow and hallucinatory reveries,
Don’t tend brambles of nuisance to pluck sweet strawberries;
Don’t throw nets in the deserts to catch sustenance fish,
Don’t fancy passing life’s Test by losing Conscience Leash!

Thus, don’t try anything futile to prove to be an exceptional one,
Lo! Only a hallowed humanity, not triviality, makes one a Human!

©Shankar D Mishra 04.11.2017
Blog: sdmpoetry.blogspot.com
My blog contains 166 poems till date.
E-mail: shankardmishrapoet@mail.com

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