LET' KEEP OUR CONSCIENCE WIDE AWAKE!

LET' KEEP OUR CONSCIENCE WIDE AWAKE!

Alas! Once we let our Conscience fast sleep,

It ceases instantly either to wink or to peep!

We cannot feel then the pinch of compunction,

Even if we slip astray, or slide on the way of deviation!

But, once we keep our Conscience alert and wide awake,

We become an impartial and sublime Angel, for God’s sake!

We can discern and distinguish between Right and Wrong,

We can love and hug the just Cream, and fling the unjust Dung!

Oh! Conscience is a priceless Gem bestowed upon man alone,

It is ever enlightening and illuminating like the radiant Sun:

Enshrined in man to embellish life purifying the rusted mind forever

Supporting him ever to feel the celestial Bliss like the life sustaining liver!

Let’s thus none of us slaughter Conscience for any mean and selfish end,

So that our friends as well as foes will heartily salute us and commend;

We can then live to reign and prevail even long after our death,

We can enrich the Earth with Virtue wealth, and win His blessings and faith!

©Shankar D Mishra 06.11.2017

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O ADDICTION!

O ADDICTION!

O Addiction! What a rare stuff you are made up of!

You are as impregnable as a Rhino skin inflexible and tough,

As incredible as the very apt word “Incredibility” itself,

Oh! Unbuyable you are by any price of the mundane pelf!

Yes, you are more independent than a jolly bird in the free sky,

As unbudgingly capricious as an obdurate and grimy human lie,

As slyly elusive as an inimitable and inscrutable enigma,

Oh! You are never mindful to a swift and unwanted stigma!

Oh! You can effortlessly vanquish a chameleon in changing hues,

Can camouflage yourself  beneath the bushy and Breaking News,

You are never that, that over his pitfalls, ever regrets, repents or rues,

You, like Kangaroo kids, inherently adhere to your impractical views!

Yet, despite all your ugly negativities, commendable is your rigid fragility!

Had all men practised sincerely since time immemorial your only ‘Positivity’,

Human evolution could have surely been more substantial and delicious

Oh! Mother Earth could have been a sweeter Heaven precious and pious!

©Shankar D Mishra 05.11.2017

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DON’T

DON’T

Don’t drop a mass of rock of chaos into a still lake of the mind,

Don’t swim on the surface of superficiality, valued pearls, to find;

Don’t grind the trifling husks to garner any grain of essence,

Don’t cook nothingness on the fire of anger to serve non-sense!

Don’t dive headlong into a dry and waterless river of pettiness,

Don’t jump to a hasty, raw and blind conclusion of emptiness;

Don’t beat about the bushes to pluck the soft roses of worth,

Don’t butcher anyone’s happiness to muster your own Mirth!

Don’t live in a world of hollow and hallucinatory reveries,

Don’t tend brambles of nuisance to pluck sweet strawberries;

Don’t throw nets in the deserts to catch sustenance fish,

Don’t fancy passing life’s Test by losing Conscience Leash!

Thus, don’t try anything futile to prove to be an exceptional one,

Lo! Only a hallowed humanity, not triviality, makes one a Human!

©Shankar D Mishra 04.11.2017

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O GOD! LET ME NOT BE A MONARCH OF A FATAL KINGDOM!

O GOD! LET ME NOT BE A MONARCH OF A FATAL KINGDOM!

Oh! Artificiality plays supreme,

Where Genuineness is scared to scamper and quietly scream!

Oh! A Reverie is adored as, and substituted for a sweet dream,

Where the reeking Scum is taken for mouth watering Cream!

Comes to power a misleading and unrivalled Illusion,

Where suffocated and strangled is the valued Vision!

Oh! A more blessed and welcome haven is a poisoned Prison,

Where whipped, gagged and throttled is one’s prized Reason!

Oh! Hell is a much coveted and sought after place,

Where Heaven is unwanted like cursed, rotten flesh!

Oh! A shameful Incarceration is a celestial Bliss,

Where Salvation is ignobly sliced to many a piece!

Oh! Falsehood clears, at ease, the litmus Test,

Where Truth is poisoned to death as a pestering Pest!

O God! Let me not be a wretched Monarch of a fatal Kingdom,

Let me prefer, in Your Realm, a contented and reprieved Serfdom!

Glossary:

reeking - stinking

scum- a layer of dirt on the surface of a liquid

gagged –choked

throttled - suffocated

incarceration - imprisonment

©Shankar D Mishra 02.11.2017

Blog: sdmpoetry.blogspot.com

My blog contains 165 poems till date.

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