The Epiphany That Changed My Life
It was almost at the middle of my teen-age days,
When mind, like a horse without bridle, found rough ways;
Inner laissez-faire, like snake in dilapidated crack, set in,
Legs, the way they found, aimlessly, anywhere broke-in;
Parents and relatives resembled villains, who gave me grief,
Warnings of elders seemed shell blown into ears of deaf,
Bunking classes I went roaming with loafers just like me,
At night, to movie theaters, second-shows, I went to see;
Sessions of beer and wine too spontaneously started,
Stronger among us tried to puff marijuana, whole-hearted;
Church-going and prayers got stopped, like drying streams,
Scruples troubled the nights, filling with deadly dreams;
Peripheral flamboyancy exhibited many extravaganzas,
Life, yet, often seemed empty like vague poetic stanzas;
Youth, like that of Francis Thompson, in waywardness went-by,
Till one day, boozed heavy, like a dead I had happened to lie;
Compulsory confession and conversion was all suggested,
Inner mind (as it thought) to these idiocies, protested;
It's, then, when personal monetary bankruptcy crept,
When friends, like migratory birds, my company left;
My fiancé, finding me no more glamorous and glee,
Dared to flee, with my extremely execrable enemy;
Existence, like that of the prodigal son, fell absurd,
With severest of stress and misery; insight blurred;
Bike-accident appeared as last straw on camel's back,
Hospitalizing me all my playful activities it did hijack;
With weak limps when the brink of the grave I did reach,
Wisdom, like epiphany, new morals to me did preach;
Convictions coerced me to leave Sodom and Gomorrah,
Be inspired perpetually by the enchanting divine aura;
Repented; sins confessed; I am, then, a man reborn,
Walk upright; my fidelity on the scriptures being sworn...!
17 August 2022
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Copyright © Christuraj Alex | Year Posted 2022
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