PARADOX

             

                         

 

                   

                                                           

     1)      We do not mean by what we act

              We do not act by what we mean, a fact

              Our conscience seems so innocent and clean

              Our acts divulge our minds cunning and mean.

    2)       Our cows—abodes of gods—we state

               So many stray cattle in starving state

               Who cares about their wretched state?

               With dirty plastic-food they fill their pates.

    3)       On serpent –stones milk we devoutly pour

              To ward off evils and ill-health from our door

               But kill the snakes that crawl through brier and bush

               Vile poisonous pests we ruthlessly crush.

                         

    4)        As holy goddesses we ever treat

               Our lakes and rivers filled with waters sweet

               We dump all dirt, garbage and sewage waste

               Degrading them to a most polluted state

    5)        True shelters of gods our trees we say

                Going around them we piously pray

                In lakhs we cut them down without remorse

                Ignoring future disasters and loss.  

    6)        Our greed for land destroyed jungles dense

                Resulting in famines and drought intense

                Wild animals and beasts perished a lot

                Nature’s rare gifts, alas, forever lost.

    7)        To compensate our countless sinful deeds

               To holy places we devoutly proceed

                Donating wealth in liberal measure

               To pacify gods and earn their pleasure.

    8)         In lakhs we give to monks and temples great

                But not for men in suffering state

                One omnipresent  God we rarely meet

                In fellow-beings and fairly treat.

    9)         Will our bosoms melt with pity to see

                Those kids toil out of dire necessity?

                Who cares to see those beggars and orphans poor?

                To wipe their tears and their poverty cure ?

       

   10)        We talk so big about our ancient culture

                Still murders and rapes rage like vultures

                Justice creeps too slow like a wounded snail

                 While criminals enjoy their stay in jail.

    11)        Our bureaucrats equipped with latest tools

                 Still treat their customers and public as fools

                 Till their purses are satisfied, they never mind

                 Their crooked tactics too abstruse to find.

    12)        What is the use of bragging glorious past

                  If the noble spirit behind them is not sought?

                  No deceptive acts can save us from fate

                  The fruits of our deeds we suffer soon or late. 

     13)       Our thoughts and words should match with our deeds

                 Give up violence and destructive creeds

                  Live up to the ideals you praise upright

                  If not, we will be called mere hypocrites.

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              Plastic-food --- food polluted with plastic material

    Note :         A paradox is a statement which appears to be

                      contradictory but is actually true in fact.

                           Eg:  I must be cruel to be kind.

                                  The child is father of the man.

                                  Truth is honey which is bitter.

                  

       13th October, 2018                            Somaseshu Gutala