BETTER

 

BETTER

Better, you swallow the pungent, peevish pain 

Than causing the same to any other.

Better, you devour unwelcome, petulant unpeace

That may pacify your unyielding neighbour.

Better, you sip the poisonous, noxious Hemlock

Than inflicting on any other bitter botheration.

Better, you lick the rancorous, virulent venom

That may confer upon any other blithe elation.

Better, you drink huffy, irksome headache

Than spoiling any other’s stored serenity.

Better, you embrace intolerable separation

That may cause one’s much awaited unity.

Better, you acknowledge your sour, tart debacle

Than winning to demolish and devastate one’s life.

Better, you sacrifice your own honeyed recreation

That may pester and pierce in one like a knife.

Better, you suppress your much relieved laughter

Than being a reason for any other’s hot tears.

Better, be reluctantly ostracized and isolated

That may bring back one’s undeserving cheers.

©Shankar D Mishra 19 .02.2017

Email id: shankardmishrapoet@mail.com