Sky and Earth

Earth is round so are Sun and Moon; all orbs Sky’s full of celestial globes Which have their own systems of movement Following the ideal of noninvolvement In the affairs of others like stars and planets Which exist like wisdom’s precious nuggets In harmony, in regulated systematic pattern Each like a taciturn tactician; Whatever the deviations from the norm Are adjusted as if by a supreme wisdom; They are illumined joyous and wholesome. Human sphere consists of countries; Humans with innumerable unregulated intricacies Pertaining to faith, understanding, beliefs in hegemony Create problems of incorrigible disharmony; In spite of great commercial improvements Communication by electronic developments Making the whole earth a global village Most of them have religions but so poles apart That some consider it instrument of diabolic act To subjugate women and countries; the whole earth Under their bestial faith justifying its worth. Others carry on their religious ideas as ever before Few are spiritually evolved to go beyond the mundane shore. Man may regain his lost kingdom Only with spiritual fervor and appropriate wisdom. © Aju Mukhopadhyay, 2017