HAPPY MEN

HAPPY MEN

Brightness is life
Darkness is death.
Fight successfully they the strife
Braced up for any Fate with a firm faith.

Virtue is feather-like light
Earth-like heavy is sin.
From the former they extract delight
Against the latter they never lean!

Treating alike both warmth and cold
By and by, they grow old.
Walking ever the prudent steps and bold
Before all eyes, a laudable image they mould.

They cry not in humiliating paucity
Nor do they relinquish sacred sanctity
Nor do blame others for their own gloom
Nor do they whine ever for their doom.

Spill they not their joy while they swim in plenitude
Nor look down upon, nor let anyone down
Nor do lose their cool, nor do they frown
For, a steady modest star shines in their attitude.

They humbly plaudit others for their popularity
If befalls defamation, stake self-responsibility.
Victory to them is the integrity fruit of labour
‘Defeat’ is a stern teacher for a better endeavour.

They have all friends, and no foes
For, they are conscientious and just.
Enjoy they one and all’s unswerving trust
Every moment, their woes wane and joy grows!

They come down with a goodly supply of virtues
Who can clear their unpayable dues?
They are in themselves an endless main of “Marvel”.
Let’s at least look upon them with reverence, and hail

They are happy for making others’ days
For not succumbing to the savage rage
For leading the life of a pertinent sage
Not being ensnared in the mundane Cage.

Let’s all be happy, like them, for making others glad
For dripping honest sweat by persevering hard.
For making the World a better place than yesterdays
For craving for nothing except God’s Blissful Rays.

N.B: Main means sea used by Longfellow in ‘A Psalm of Life’.

©Shankar D Mishra    13.01.2017