ABSOLUTE POWER

 

ABSOLUTE POWER 

Absolute Power is what makes one devilish and blind,

Despotic, autocratic, arbitrary and unkind,

self-centred, rapacious and gluttonous 

Inhumane, insane and unscrupulous! 

Absolute Power is what injects in one intoxication,

Of malice, hatred, umbrage and perversion, 

Arrogance, pretense, hypocrisy and cruelty, 

Snatches away one’s precious rationality! 

Absolute 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! 

Absolute 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 Absolute Power,

Do tread the path – unblemished, sacred, flowery, virtuous and pure 

By and by you’ll be more amicable, and will soar higher 

And be blest with a Heaven’s Pass at length for sure! 

@Dr. Shankar D Mishra 20.11.2022