Why feel nervous, be steady and cool
No professional ordeals to test
Your endurance and disturb your
rest;
No family burdens to ruffle thy
brain;
No rivalries with peers to compete
No tensions and arguments with
heat;
No mounting expenses your purse to
drain;
Why should we rack our brains with worries
vain?
About our future unknown with
unnecessary strain?
2) Don’t feel your position and power are lost
In this material world nothing
does last;
Though experience made you a
little bit wise
You are not master of all; exercise
Control on what you do, say and
advise
Times and tastes change, feel no
shock or surprise;
Watch from respectful distance, be
calm
Don’t be an interfering, peeping
Tom.
3) Compel not youngsters to leave their
tasks and hear
Your stories and expect applause
with cheer;
Don’t give others troubles-- no stress and strain;
Waste not their busy
scheduled time; don’t complain
Don’t whine for their consistent
care and maintain
Composure; take care of yourself;
don’t grieve in vain.
Control yourself and your
attitude; not others, I say.
Give your suggestions if sought
in a modest way.
4) Your generation’s tastes and ways
don’t impose
On them; no list of rules and
laws propose;
Argue not too much and no negative
thoughts;
Times change our ways; no use of
retrieving past;
A lot of time and leisure you do
possess
Help others if you can; don’t
assess
Others boasting about your
experience and age;
Be a part of this world; control your craze.
5) Enough resources you have by divine
grace
And still you strive with wants,
your remaining days
Desires deprive you of your
contented state
And make you view your life as
waste;
No uniformity in world you find
Even heavenly bliss can’t satisfy
your mind;
Spend your time in peaceful contentment
Enjoy what you possess; no use of
resentment.
6) Good books revitalize your ageing mind
In arts and hobbies solace you find;
Waste not your time in arguments
vain
Widen your range with knowledge
and wisdom gain;
Most of our bonds like passing clouds vanish
Know this and clouds of loneliness
banish
Time’s plan you have to follow,
no more dread
With faith in God and yourself,
go ahead;
Our destined end like setting
sun comes near
Into new domains move on with
philosophic cheer.
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16th October, 2020 Somaseshu Gutala
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