Virtues--Hymn
Virtue: by GEORGE HERBERT
'Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky;
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night,
For thou must die.'
My greed took me away from myself,
I blindly followed a hollow tune;
It kept me off lord's hallowed shelf,
Life ambrosia wasted!
My ego bred jealousy and hate,
We faught and bled each other red;
Lord had given freedom to rewrite fate,
Peace of mind wasted!
Anger gnawed my sanity from within,
It held to ransom my capacity to reason;
This made me commit many a dirty sin,
Love nectar wasted!
Only if I was an enlightened soul,
With benign, guiding hand of a teacher;
may have been a diamond, not coal,
Virtues imbibed, not wasted!
'In honor of Charles Wesley poetry contest' of Kim Rodrigues
29.7.2020
Copyright © Mohan Chutani | Year Posted 2020
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