Page 4 of TEARS NOW AND THEN

The time bound relevance

  The grandfather’s death anniversary

  Was observed by my father till he lived.

  Now it’s no more emotional to us.

  So is the Independence Day to us now.

  Aug., 2013

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  Rely On You.

  While you play a game, you don’t pray to God.

  While you play a sport, you don’t think of Him.

  While you play, you play to your potential.

  Your life is your play; must you spend in God?

  Aug., 2013

  No Time To Serve

  Entertainments extract most time.

  Sports and games exhaust energy.

  Manpower is spent without growth.

  Man has no time for fellow men.

  Aug., 2013

  Freedom to India

  Freedom to the people

  Who lack strength to support

  Or defend it outright

  Is perilous to them.

  Freedom of the adult

  Is not fit to the child.

  Vincent Churchill was against

  Granting freedom to India.

  Should I say he is right,

  I am not a patriot.

  Aug., 2013

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  One’s Loftiness

  One buys or spends to impress others liked

  Or to not impress those who are disliked.

  To buy or spend for one’s personal taste

  Comes only next and thus comes one’s loftiness.

  Aug., 2013

  Causes Of Divorces

  Growing with siblings toughens tolerance.

  Bringing up children strengthens one’s patience.

  As a lone child from the family planning,

  People are sensitive to break relations.

  Aug., 2013

  The Smooth Transition

  .

  Grant me loss, but sustainably.

  Cause me pains, but tolerably.

  Give me shocks but bearably.

  Take me, Lord, being unaware.

  Give me blows, not violently.

  Send me down, not abruptly.

  Wear me out, not drastically.

  Take me, Lord, without any clue.

  Aug., 2013

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  The Secret About The Secret

  A secret is a burden to carry.

  To keep it under a seal is a worry.

  Share a secret that is much disturbing,

  With someone discrete and understanding.

  Burry a secret of who matters you,

  If it is harmful in revelation.

  Hide not a secret from one close to you,

  Even if it can harm relationships

  As learning it from someone can harm more

  Especially when it is deductible.

  Hold a secret about an insult you got.

  Hold a secret about others’ weakness.

  A man of secret would maroon himself.

  A woman of secret would seclude herself.

  Aug., 2013

  The Tragic Humans

  Musicians learn by mistakes.

  Scientists learn by experiments.

  Physicians learn by doing both

  On humans, the unfortunate.

  Aug., 2013

  Stand Great.

  Be yourself to be true;

  Being true is being honest;

  Being honest is being trusted.

  As trusted you stand and feel great.

  Aug., 2013

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  The Mother Superior

  The mother, whose love is for you,

  Will never leave you

  Because there are many reasons

  To give up,

  But will find, somehow, one reason

  To hold on.

  I feel even at seventy

  An orphan.

  Aug., 2013

  Observe, Instead Of Musing.

  On your way when you are idle,

  Don’t spend your time in just thinking,

  Which might land you in anxieties.

  Instead, indulge in observation

  Of what would be around you there,

  By which you learn new things unseen

  And keeps you in tranquility.

  To observe is to concentrate.

  Aug.,2013

  Be Not Below A Beggar.

  Don’t sell service; don’t sell information.

  Don’t sell knowledge if you have other means.

  If you do, you’ll earn only bitterness

  And place yourself lower than a beggar.

  Aug.,2013

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  Heads And Tails

  A head has more options to choose from

  And more loads to carry, also with risks.

  A tail has a few options, less loads.

  To lead without any load is man’s wish.

  To evolve without efforts is man’s wish.

  He wants choices without confusions.

  Be a head or a tail as it suits

  Rather than as you wish to become.

  Heads fan egos and tails sleep safely.

  Sep. 2013

  Mourn The Deaths Of The Low.

  A big man is dead; a rich man is dead.

  Or let it be a glamorous person.

  They have benefited more in their lives.

  Instead, mourn the deaths of the unfortunate.

  Sep., 2013.

  Why Is India Slipping?

  A socialist country,

  A corrupt country,

  A country divided

  By religions across

  And a quota country

  Cannot compete

  In the world economy.

  Indian rupee is slipping.Sep., 2013

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  Loyalty Is The Base.

  Loyalty is shown to cultivate faith.

  It is the demand of one’s livelihood

  And one’s survival in a given time.

  Loyalty secured, one can be honest.

  Sep., 2013.

  Pay Two To Get One.

  Pay two to get one or sometime none.

  This is what friendships have taught me in life.

  This is what relationships taught me in life.

  It is too late for me to have it undone.

  Sep., 013

  Bear With Children.

  Don’t curse your children for their negligence

  Shown to you during your invalid days

  For they’re your copies that you leave behind

  And it’s they who remind of you post-death.

  Sep., 2013

  A Sadist Mother

  The mother that enjoys teaching

  Rather than caring her children,

  And reading rather than feeding,

  Is by nature a sadist.

  Sep., 2013

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  Possessive Of Mother

  A boy is possessive of his mother

  In that he does not like her mother

  Romancing with any other man,

  However high he is to his father.

  Sep., 2013

  Be A Man.

  Misuse, but not the one who likes you.

  Ignore, but not the one who depends on you.

  Deceive, but not the one who trusts you.

  Forget, but not the one who helped you.

  Sep., 2013

  Be Fair Yet.

  To expect one to be fair to you

  Because you are fair to the one is

  To expect a dog not to bite you

  Because you don’t intend to bite it.

  Lives consist of preys and predators.

  Be fair yet and be cautious as well.

  Sep., 2013

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  To Get Peace

  Peace will prevail in you

  When you do not allow

  Someone or some event
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  To reign your emotions.

  It means being prepared

  For the repercussions.

  Sep., 2013

  Don’t Mock The Past.

  Each generation is better placed

  Than the preceding one in respect of

  Knowledge, skills, techniques and intelligence.

  Don’t mock the thoughts and things prevalent then.

  Sep., 2013

  God Send Love

  I love without conditions;

  I talk without intentions;

  I give without reasons;

  I care without expectations.

  Yes, I am in sexual love

  Or in love with my child.

  Sep., 2013

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  Human Errors

  Some I have praised and some I, abused.

  Some I have wished and some I, cursed.

  My actions went wrong and I got regrets.

  No one could escape such quilt before dead.

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  Woes Of The old Continue.

  Desires shrinking, fear looming,

  The old ones are left to themselves.

  The old are not heard when they moan

  Unlike children whose cries are answered.

  Isolation tortures the old.

  Humiliations maim the old.

  Neglects are borne without murmur.

  Body-pains are borne without anger.

  I did not know till I grew old

  How my grandpa felt his old age

  And how my parents felt their woes.

  My progeny don’t know my sores.Sep., 2013

  I Do To Up Me.

  When I say that I fear God,

  And that I love mother,

  My mother tongue

  And my mother land,

  I do to pose as noble.Sep., 2013

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  No Way Is Ever Good.

  I ate an apple a day

  And landed in the tooth decay.

  I ate tomato for C

  And got stones in the kidney.

  I ate what money can buy

  And ran the risk of attack.

  No path is good till the end.

  You cannot ever escape.

  Sep., 2013

  Big Leaders Are Desperate.

  Being in the news would invite contempt.

  Being absent in the news would bring eclipse.

  Being extinct, the leader is invoked

  Only when it is advantageous.

  Oct., 2013

  Don’t Count Before Hatching.

  Who would be there to help me in the end?

  When would be those fatal days for my end?

  Not to take chances, I extra pleased them:

  Aunts and uncles; brothers and sisters;

  Sons and daughters; more their children.

  Even nieces and nephews were not spared.

  Friends and neighbours were picked to add in the list.

  I did not harvest any seeds I’d sown

  As either they left me or I left them.

  I pass my end alone in an asylum.

  Sep., 2013.

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  Exercises Wasteful

  To convey in dances

  The plays of the gods

  By signals and symbols,

  As if of the Stone Age,

  Even after inventions

  Of languages in place,

  Is a wasteful exercise.

  To convey on canvas

  The images in mind

  With brushes and paints

  As if of the Stone Age,

  Even after inventions

  Of photography

  Is a wasteful exercise.

  Sep., 2013

  Social Animals

  Wild animals get liberty

  At the cost of safety.

  Domestic ones get safety

  At the cost of liberty.

  Man is a social animal.

  He needs the king’s scepter

  So that he would get safety.

  Sep., 2013

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  Is Not Man Fortunate?

  Lions are kings and held in esteem.

  What are their fates when they are old,

  Weak, ailing or just handicapped?

  They can’t catch preys and die starving.

  No one is to feed or care them.

  No right to hold or inherit;

  No old age home, nor asylum;

  The same is to all except man.Oct.,.2013

  Ownerships Give A Hold.

  I love to plough;

  I went for a piece of land.

  I love to sow;

  I got a piece of land.

  I love to rear;

  I maintained the land got.

  I love to own;

  I take care of the land.

  The land and the wife

  Give me a sense of ownership.

  Oct.,.2013

  To Learn And To Be Not Taught

  Swimming is learnt and not taught.

  So is driving, riding or any skill.

  Learning by experience is the learning

  That stands with one in one’s adversities.

  Oct., 2010

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  Progresses Are Limited.

  The family doctor

  Is a limiting factor

  To one’s longevity.

  The religion’s leader

  Is a limiting factor

  To one’s rational growth.

  Father or mother

  Is a limiting factor

  To one’s visionary.

  One’s connectivity

  Is the binding factor

  To one’s unbiased views.

  One’s progress is limited.

  Oct., 2013

  Females Double Chased

  Animals have a kind of predators

  Who hunt them for food, from whom they must flee.

  Females have one more kind of predator,

  Their males, who chase them, from whom they must flee.

  Animal kingdom is full of miseries;

  So is woman, and God is a witness.

  Oct., 2013

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  Scrupulousness Has No Place.

  Snails have tiny shells with predators small.

  Tortoises have large ones; so are their eaters;

  Black money is made by crooks, small and big,

  To their sizes to fall on when threatened.

  Oct., 2013

  God Manifest In Them.

  The doctor is more than God

  For one in an emergency ward.

  The swimmer is more than God

  For one drowning in a pool.

  The judge is more than God

  For one hearing the judgment.

  The lord will not be offended

  If they take His place in one’s faith.

  Oct., 2013

  Honesty Cannot Manage Wealth.

  The comfort one has and the luxuries

  One enjoys uplift one more than one’s due.

  To keep such life style, one must have a source.

  To manage it, one is less scrupulous.

  Oct.,2013

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  Traces On The Earth

  I left no traces on the earth

  Before I got my birth. No regrets;

  I must leave traces on the earth

  After I leave by death. It’s my wish;

  My children or debts are traces

  And not the body and good deeds;

  The latter would soon vanish.

  Nov., 2013

  Value Of The Mother Tongue

  No song of other languages

  Can touch you as much as the one

  Sung in your mother tongue.

  To feel at home, the chats must be

  In one’s mother tongue.

  Nov., 2013

  Bridge The Gap.

  Bridge
the gap between the brain and the heart,

  The words and the deeds, freedom and duty,

  Skills and succour and money and mercy.

  Else, you are useless to the society.

  Nov., 2013

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  Intentions Of The Causes

  Hurt by words or looks, I get no wounds but pain.

  Hurt by bites in love, I get wounds without pain.

  Hurt from surgery, I get wounds without anger.

  Effects are modified by the intentions.

  Nov., 2013

  One Is Hardly Good.

  When weak, I’m humble.

  When strong, I humble.

  When weak, I tolerate.

  When strong, I retaliate.

  One behaves from one’s strength.

  Nov., 2013

  Fear The God.

  Love of God; fear of God;

  Love of God gives confidence.

  Fear of God gives discipline.

  Fear of God is the need of the hour.

  Nov., 2013

  To Rise Is For A Fall.

  A recovery by a surgery

  Might give one a new lease of life, open

  For further risk demanding surgery.

  A rise from a fall is open for a fall.

  Nov., 2013

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  The Doctor Is The God.

  A doctor must give the same attention

  To the poor one as he does for the rich.

  He’s held next to the God by the both patients.

  Doctors! You’re the God’s representatives.

  Nov., 2011

  How Does Human Race Last?

  Man believes in human value.

  He believes in any friendships.

  He wants peace with fellow beings.

  These overcome his shortcomings.

  Nov., 2013

  Bharat Ratna

  He played for himself; he used his best skills.

  He amazed huge wealth; he stuck to the game

  By getting a long rope from the selectors,

  And at last quit it quite unwillingly.

  He had made many records hard to break.

  He is the youngest to receive the crown

  And the first sports person to receive it.

  He is not to blame. Then who is to blame?

  He has been conferred the highest honour.