MIND

MIND

“O ‘Mystery’ thou art called human mind!
Thou canst run faster than the fastest wind
Thou art subtler than the subtlest find
Thou art really rarest of the rare kind!”

Mind carries you to the glorious pinnacle
Mind ferries you to the humiliating debacle
Mind burns you down to pyre like fire
Mind chars you under the sway of ire!

Mind makes you a great noble sage
Mind drags you into a mystifying maze
Mind bags for you a basketful of praise
Mind ensnares you in an unbailable cage!

Mind brings you the euphoric ecstasy of Heaven
Mind makes you one of the worldly wonders seven
Mind turns your life into a cancerous curse
Mind makes your life like stinky, infectious pus.

Mind sprinkles around you mesmerizing fragrance
Mind fans around you exasperating annoyance
Mind bestows upon you exhilarating joyance
Mind compels you to remorseful repentance!

Mind builds in you a colossal castle of peace
Mind does it in an instant collapse and demolish
Mind blesses you with enlightening knowledge
Mind fills you with vile and detestable dregs!

Mind suckles you with miraculous nectar
Mind leaves upon you an unerasable scar
Mind makes you a mighty, formidable king
Mind forces you to suck misfortune’s sting!

Mind plays in you millions of praise-worthy parts
Mind makes you myriad moles, eagles and rats
Mind makes you pudent, prudent, wise and sane
Mind makes you a filthy, marshy and miry drain!

Thus, whatever roles may play the chameleonic mind
My only humble prayer is to the Master of the mind
To make me His a slave law-abiding, noble, loyal and rare
And the master of the mind, to jump off the mundane snare.

• Dregs- (pronounced as dregz) impurities in liquor that falls to the bottom/vilest part of anything

©Shankar D Mishra   05 .03.2017
Email id: shankardmishrapoet@mail.com

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