POWER
Power is what makes one devilish and blind
Despotic, autocratic, arbitrary and unkind,
Self-centered, rapacious and gluttonous
Inhumane, insane and unscrupulous!
Power is what injects in one intoxication
Of malice, hatred, umbrage and perversion,
Arrogance, pretense, hypocrisy and cruelty,
Snatches away one’s precious rationality!
Power is what deprives one of costly reason
Justice, law, forbearance and decent margin,
Peace, purity, piety and mental equilibrium,
Makes his mind a mussy, dirty and slutty slum!
Power is what an ignoble curse in disguise
Accumulates sorrow, suffering and despise,
Bags people’s reluctant, requited praises
Is preferr’d by demons, not by sensible sages.
So, O sane humans, abstain from the atrocious Power,
Walk the path – unblemished, virtuous and pure
By and by you’ll be more amicable and soar higher
And be blest with a Heaven’s Pass at length sure!
@Shankar D Mishra 20.12.2016
Power is what makes one devilish and blind
Despotic, autocratic, arbitrary and unkind,
Self-centered, rapacious and gluttonous
Inhumane, insane and unscrupulous!
Power is what injects in one intoxication
Of malice, hatred, umbrage and perversion,
Arrogance, pretense, hypocrisy and cruelty,
Snatches away one’s precious rationality!
Power is what deprives one of costly reason
Justice, law, forbearance and decent margin,
Peace, purity, piety and mental equilibrium,
Makes his mind a mussy, dirty and slutty slum!
Power is what an ignoble curse in disguise
Accumulates sorrow, suffering and despise,
Bags people’s reluctant, requited praises
Is preferr’d by demons, not by sensible sages.
So, O sane humans, abstain from the atrocious Power,
Walk the path – unblemished, virtuous and pure
By and by you’ll be more amicable and soar higher
And be blest with a Heaven’s Pass at length sure!
@Shankar D Mishra 20.12.2016
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