WHERE THE WINDS ARE FREE
Where winds wish to have a stay,
And talk to birds until leaves
Loudly acknowledge their presence,
Where butterflies riot in their trance lost
And serpents donot have to stay indoors
For fear of the curfew outside
Where the land still to the earth belong
Ploughed for seeds,
Not punctured with JCBs to implant
images of an Insane civilization
Where men in innocence believe
And don't consider
Ignorance a crime,
Where pens flow in bounteous praise
Of the creator
And men and the vegetation stay in love
Where you don't need scriptures to tell
What is hatred and
What constitutes His prayer
O Muse, land me in that gracious company
When alive, and among
This happy world, in peace rest.
Dr Jernail S Anand
WHIRLED UP
Jernail S Aanand
Time makes some rise
And some fall.
There won't be day until the night gives way.
No other way except to say
While the sun shines
We make hay
And when it doesn't shine
It is the hay
That has a field day.
What restricts me
From a thousand things
Despite feet, I can't play
I am frozen mass
Caught in the whirl
Where I am, destined to stay.
Dr Jernail S Anand
INCOUNTER
I took with me a sacred lamp
To light in the temple,
And an incense stick too
And then I started with a few sacred words
To appease the invisible presence behind a deity.
I knew it was a sacred place,
And every thing that I brought here,
The candle, the lamp,
The matchstick, the incense
Had to be sacred too.
I bowed my head, and in my mind
Prayed for worldly joys
And lifted my eyes up
Thinking the deity will respond
And bless me,
I felt an invisible hand on my shoulder
I looked back,
There was none,
Only a voice rose from nowhere..
"The most sacred thing in this temple
Is you, your body, your mind".
Am I too sacred?
"You too are something come straight
From the divine manufactury.
Branded by God
Even if your mind is filled with world,
In your blood flows the Master."
"As you don't bring anything profane
In this sacred place,
Why you scatter so many insanities
And impurities in your mind?
Why are you so insensitive
To towards yourself?"
"Realise your sacredness,
Your beauty, your aura,
And your descent from the Divine
Cast in love, compassion,
And empathy
For men, bird and beast."
"O soul! Thou burneth already!
Realise thy truth."
And voice turned silent
After it was sure
It has ignited my soul l.
Dr Jernail S Anand
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