Oh! Peace is a priceless Pearl lying at the bottom of an ocean,
Alas! I am too far off to pluck It, being a distant and desolate desert's denizen!
Oh! Peace is a Pole-star, shining in the northern Heaven,
Alas! I am too far off to touch It, being a dweller of a deep earthly cavern!
Oh! Peace is a sweet Fruit hung in the tallest tree of the Paradise,
Alas! I am too far off in the deepest mundane hell to catch that Prize!
Oh! Peace is the nutritious Milk of the most generous Kamadhenu divine,
Alas! I am too far off to suck Her udders, sleeping in the sty like a sacrilegious swine!
Oh! Peace for me is a silvery, luminous and soothing Full Moon,
Alas! I am too far off a delinquent dwarf to obtain this celestial Boon!
Oh! Peace, for me, is a radiant and redeeming Sun of the noon,
Alas! Even to come close to It I am too cursed a light and infirm balloon!
O Peace! Had I not been sinfully and unforgivably amiss,
I would have been blessed with Thy Panacean Company of Bliss!
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 08.10.18
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