No risk, no gain

One seed dies to produce million.
Not to lose is not to gain.

Some die to redeem the rest.
Not to stoop is not to rise.

Ego dies to earn wisdom.
Not to listen is not to learn.
08.07.97

Brave is the tiger

Gregarious is not the tiger.
Gregarious is not the Banyan.
So is any brave man.
Gregarious is only deer and grass,
Like of who are the cowards.
Only the insecure one seeks peers.
01.07.99

Bitter is stronger

The lender remembers but the debtor not, the debts.
The injurer forgets but the wounded not, the hurts.
Better be off violence if not of benevolence.
12.07.97

The Priceless

Hello, My dear Vendor!
‘Could you sell me a guitar?’
‘Why not, come in, my Master!
Take it, a brand new, for a hundred.’
‘Is the other less the cost, as looking old?’
‘Yes, yes, it is only half a hundred.
Should you go for a secondhand?’
‘The one still old, kept yonder?’
‘An antique, well above ten hundred.’
‘O, My God! Useless, still priceless!’
22.02.97

Himsa- the Food

Near the tube-light, on the wall
stood a lizard, with steadfast head,
catching its prey. How many killings?

In the backyard, under the trees,
were darting hens, with alert beaks,
pecking their prey. How many killings?

Inside the kitchen, beneath the oven
lies our pet kitten, with gleaming eyes
to smother rats. How many killings?

No life without food;
No food without life
07.08.97

To triumph is to succumb

Echoed Sugreeb,
‘I annihilated Bali!’.
Ecstasies his wife,
‘I am redeemed’.
But wept his father,
‘I lost a son’.

Pledged the wise,
‘We wiped out the pest’.
Bowed the mankind,
‘We are saved best’.
But the Creator felt,
‘The nature is at its worst’.

Man triumphs nature
To succumb to Nature.
09.07.97

Fret not

Dread of all dreads is Death.
To court it is ultimate.
The rest all is less in threat,
Of that why should you fret?
29.06.97