Birthday Wish
Who is interested in this tale?
They know you eat fish
You on occasion laugh but seldom smile
You always make a birthday wish
For wellness and fullness
Of people with want and need
Standing at the temple gates
Where gargoyles stare down in seeming greed.
The best and biggest smiles are under these gates
In faces which are varied caricatures of fate
This is the most famous of all gates
Ambaal fed me here just enough
Then she read my writings on the slate.
It is a temple and a state
Where mind matters and inner self dominates
Citizens speak of the ruling laws
Allowing barriers of expression to break.
Here you will not see lazy loitre
Freedom of spirit here is graded backwards
Making children and illusory clutter
Exchange of energies between child and aged occur.
This temple tale of my existential flavour
Is a mix of right and wrong ingredients
Made of coveted thoughts and odd behaviour
In the long run functional alltogether.
Copyright © Vidya Raghunathan | Year Posted 2018
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