I did not wallow in my ills
Nor did I spread out my garment
Like a torn and tattered beggar
Seeking sympathy and help.
I only spoke my mind
At the way I saw things.
I had to to give vent to my thoughts
And innermost feelings
Being in nature a poet
And that too possessing
A deep heart, mind and soul.
I do not think life is merely
Meant to be experienced
And "lived" and "enjoyed" without rules
Or a code of proper human conduct
Prepared by the One True Great God
Who created us humans, the genie and the angels
Along with innumerable other beings
That which we have no knowledge of...
If a life without rules and proper conduct
And a set of rules for hygiene and health
Proper worship and sincere adulation
And sincere thanksgivings to God Almighty
Had no need to be present for us
And had we been allowed to wallow like pigs
And other shameful creatures that are unaware of shame
Yet toil and plod their days and nights
And waste their lives of mother earth
Then this world would haee been a scum bag
Of dirt, rot, filth and muck...
And if this had been so
Then the wisdom of the sages
The philosophers and thinkers
The reformers, saints and prophets
Would not have shown us
The right from the wrong
The sin from the good.
God Almighty created us
And He knows best
How to guide us
He is our best Shepherd
And we are His flock.
He daily works according to His divine plan
To save those lost sheep among us
Who have been lured by Satan and gone astray
And are still doing so
Their numbers increasing with each passing day
As the dirt and filth and wars of worlds show.
And Lucifer and his increasing legions
Are happy at the success of their efforts
But God is the Wisest and knows how best
To save his wandered and scattered misguided flock
From the evil methods of all the devils
And demons and diabolical beings.
God knew as He always does
How to save His misguided lambs
Among men and women
Little hildren and feeble old people.
So He sent down His messnegers
And prophets and saints
So as to rescue those gone astray
From the right path leading to Paradise
And divine spiritual salvation.
Lucifer made Adam and Eve fall
From the blissful state they were in
By sweetening the taste of evil tempation
To them and thus making them forget
The first commandment of God Almighty.
That led to the fall of all mankind
And also included the fall of Satan
And his creed and seed
Supporters and followers
Who promised God Most High
That they would do all they could
To fill mankind in the dungeons of Hell.
If only -- as Lucifer sought -- God's "reprieve"
For himself and all the other devils
And if they were given permission and means
Till the Last Day, the Day of Judgement
To lead men and women from the righteous path.
God scoffed at Satan and said
Only those who forgot His Guidance
That He the Most Merciful
Would send via His messengers and scriptures
Prophets and saints and wise far-sighted men
And chose instead to follow
The tempataions of their lower souls
And greed and avarice, lust and unbridled sex
Would be lured by the demons led by the chief --
Who had declared when Adam and Eve with Him fell
That he would be "an avowed enemy
Of Adam and Eve and their progeny."
"You will nave no power over my faithful servants"
So replied God to Lucifer
And all those who lined up with him
To degrade and defame Adam and Eve
And their offspring
Right up to the Last Day.
Experience is not enough for a newborn child
Nor for a man who loiters on the roads ans streets
Naked and in glee, thinking that his way of living
Is the best way of living and enjoying life.
Nor is experience enough for thw insane and mad,
The maniacs and the lunatics
Tne war mongers and the mischief makers
Or the burglars and rapists and murderers
Or the practitioners of evil arts
In the forbidden coves in hidden deserts
Mountains, seaside caves and barren wells.
If there is nobody qualified enough
To guide them, treat them and save them
From a life of lasting misery.
Evem a mewbprm babu needs a mother and father
And if possible a loving family
To grow up as a good citizen.
So my dear fellow poetess,
You are wise
But you are not God
None of us can be so
For we cannot even create a fly.
God knows His divine plans
And to root out sin He destroys sinners
Just as all His Holy Books show
In clearly elaborated and authentic accounts.
That if sinners were left to survive
Just on the pretext
That God hates sin and not the sinners
Then very soon a day will come
When sinners will devour and wipe out
All good and goodness from the earth's face.
The stories of Prophets Noah, Abraham, Lot,
Moses, Jesus and Muhammad -- May the peace and blessings of God Most High and Most Loving
Be on each and all of them -- testify
That for sin to be washed out, the sinners must perish.
We cannot dare say that we love our fellow men
And women
More than God loves them.
Nobody loves His Creation big and small
More than the Greatest Creator Himself.
So let us not live and fool our imaginations
By drawing some off-hand fantasies
On our limited conscious canvases
And belittle the Wisdom of God.
Let us learn to accept reality and facts
Truth and falsehood, sorcery and myths
As they are
And have been recoreded in history
Ever since the chronicles have been jottoed
Abvou the eternal battle between good and evil.
God is with the good and loves goodness
He does not hate his creation at any time
But His divine law is very mysterious
And even Satan too, being His disobedient servant --
Who has promised to damn all mankind to Hell --
Along with him and his seed and creed
When the deeds are measured on the Last Day
Will feel for his soul when his "reprieve" ends.
God knows His wise and mysterious ways
Of wiping out sin -- which cannot be wiped out --
If the sinners are allowed to survive
As followers and supporters of devils.
No mother and fathe loves a bad child
Similarly God too acts wisely and through His love
For the good among us
He has to destroy sin and sinners
Like the folk of Noah and Nimrod
Pharoah and Goliath
And the pagans of Makkah
Had to be destroyed
So that the good souls can be be saved
From the persecution and temptation
Of Satan and his seed and creed
And his growing band of followers.
This is the wisdom of the sages
And the saints and all the prophets.
It is up to us and our thinking
To try to understand the mysterious ways
Through which our Loving God Almighty acts
To save the good flock from the bad.
This is what God's Divine Will is
And as the wise Spencer so rightly said:
"In His Will lies our peace."
I am waiting for the patient to turn up on the operating table and mean while reading your poems. This one I think falls in the category of what is called prose poems, it has depth and a lesson only if we are prepared to learn. Bless you