No Harm No Wound

It was holy traveling
Suddenly I decided
after getting up from the long night sleeping,
Over phone I fixed the time of going out

I never visited the holy shrine before
Amazing, strange, solemn environment all to me

Top of the hill the saintly shrine is
Since indefinite time alone all around forest silently there was
It was said once the saint accomplished spiritual contemplation on there
No sounds, no population but birds chirping from far

When I was going to up by the muddy stairs of the hilly body
Suddenly four dogs came and escorted me and my friend
After visiting and praying in the shrine I felt hungry 
Found not there the dogs but miraculously 
an unfamiliar person asked to share with him his meal! 
O' it's maybe called God's blessings and help in terrible far alone

Whatever, on the way back we saw a snake in the middle of the stairs 
Dark black, fatty, long and brown eyes snake
We'd no idea and We’re still unknown to it
My friend afraid of it and went back few steps up
I felt also back to the shrine
But I gathered courage and thought-
“I'm not harmful to anyone and anything
So, why does this snake harm me or barricade my path?"
Generated courage forwarded us to march ahead 
We found the snake moved aside instinctively


12.07.2020 Chattogram
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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July 13, 2020 at 10:54 PM
Intriguing penning of your experience at the shrine Mahtab… Ancient Sage of my Tradition has it that it's not the snake that kills. Rather it's the evil that the person has done that kills.... Food for thought. Thanks, Gershon
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