IGNORANCE

Man has been a subject to ignorance for eons

And his ignorance is more often driven by his vanity.

Everyone tries to be superior to the other

And this desire is the root cause of all disdain.

Our material pursuits

Make it overwhelmingly difficult

To realise the true essence of life.

We fail to contemplate upon our actions

And end up in our foolish pretensions

Of worldly possessions.

This world of illusions

And wretched deceptions,

Compel our innocent souls

To enter upon several delusions

And get entangled in this web

Of desire and consequential vicious cycle.

We tend to ignore the very voice

Of our beneficent conscience.

Silence follows the benignant beckoning.

The silence denotes the very presence

Of an ignorant self and self-proclaimed notions

About one’s thoughts, ideas, and emotions.

The husky fiend shrouds the truth

And enters upon as a friend

To play gimmickry with our ignorant self.

But your inner soul doesn’t leave you

It still resides within you.

It just waits for the right occasions

To ring the bell and warn you.

But the evil spright is a better friend now

And you keep ignoring the harsh beckoning.

But someday or the other,

You will unravel the truth.

But it’ll be too late for you

To dispense with

The services of ignorance.

So, awake my friend

And awake thy soul,

To see the truth and embrace it.

~Swosti Prakash Sarangi (SPS)