Modern Sins
Today our Society
Disbanded the age old
Sins ignore and admit
Envy, gluttony, greed,
Lust, pride and wrath
Accept of modern psyche.
Current seven wonders
After grueling research
Across continents and years
Believe is a shocking stock:
Binge-drinking, tax evasion,
Bullying, domestic violence,
Bigotry, racialism and to
Kill for superiority.
Racialism the supreme depravity
In a modern makeover,
Not necessarily of religion,
Opened our eyes to largest
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Poverty Is Here To Stay
Children picking food at the dump site
Scratching overgrown hair full of lice
Unclad youngsters playing in the muck
No program or drives to keep them tuck,
Thoughts torture their souls constantly
One difficulty that ensues incessantly:
Poverty is here to stay.
Begging at crossroads is not allowed
Police enjoy caning them avowed
They run, falling, exposing their parts.
Strive for survival an intense freaking.
Take to robbing and house breaking,
Land in jails and are called terrorists:
Poverty is here to stay.
Have no education for want of school cost
No defense for want of a solicitor provost
No identity card for want of official braids
No homes as shanties are on illegal lands,
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O My Mirror
Beauty and Beloved: more said the better
Is it a need or an ecstasy? It is the latter.
At times it is a delightful soul enchanter
Like pliable raindrops on a silver platter.
Is it photographer, mirror or a painter?
Colorful blooms besides flowing water.
Rather an image I see with closed eyes
A hallucination of soul takes close byes.
You are the veil and you are the life
Murmuring songs just like my wife.
Is Eternity gazing at itself or at you?
Now Eternity in the mirror is only you.
The Buddhas, the Rumies and the sages
Illuminate ways of opulence with compassion.
The art of endurance near greed and excess
Is sure to polish the mirror, you can profess.
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