Maya*

That Illusory
state
we further
obfuscate
 
By concocting
delusion
in quixotic
confusion
 
Error upon
Error
in dystopic
profusion
 
Dreaming
forever
of conquests
Beyond
 
Plunging
this planet
in Slough
of Despond
 
*
 
Nature bared
us her secret
of nuclear
fission
 
Ask yourself
Why?
What was her
mission?
 
She tires
of us:
And would
her Plans
now abort
 
Our Time
she wishes
to cut quickly
short
 
Failing to
inspire us
seeks now to
retire us
 
Think again
now:
is that why
the Virus?
 
*
 
But we
will not rest
nor our actions
arrest
 
And still push
her far
more mayhem
more war
 
*
 
Since nothing
will move us
She must
remove us
 
*
 
“I gave them
Free Bounty
they invented
Dearth
 
They wish
to be Venus
instead of
green Earth?
 
If that they
desire
Let there
be Fire”
 
*
 
If they
will be
profane
let it be
Ukraine
 
In cauldron
of hellfire
in metaphor
of Cain
 
*
 
So once more
like yore
Slay
one another
again
 
* Maya, in Vedic ideas, is the cosmic force that has us believe in the reality of the phenomenal world.
[© R.Kanth 2022]

 

Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda, A Day in the Life, and Expiations