Wednesday, November 11, 2009

PRISONER OF THE MOMENT

By: Abdullah R. Sirad

In life mired with intricacies
One and all engaged in worldly deeds
Stunning ascent to triumph kinks life

Worldly service tuned the present time
Chattels’ quest makes one’s world round
Walks of life relied upon fancy things on earth

Men, regarded life logically
Ponder worldly earned knowledge
as vital to the emergence of the modern era.

Education heads men’s vanguard
Maids even walk off from their shells
Chasing lucrative profession to savor living

Some weren’t propitious enough
Maladies were their status of living
Engaged in ubiquitous illicit drudgery

Real point of life gone with the wind
Grimy feat and creepy expressions’ wild
Genuine service to God is hardly ever practiced

Structures and technology rose sky-high
While morality and spirituality deeply sunk
Earthly growth is men’s concept of real progress

Alas, men were deceived by their own desires
of incessantly hounding world’s dithering prosperity
Insensible of endless life in the hereafter, despite clerics’ efforts

Beware! The world is just an impermanent place, it has end
All things in it are forge and deceitful, distorting men’s sacred path
Wake up! Appraise yourself. Don’t be a prisoner of your own moment.

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