Sometimes I wonder if any fine thing in life is enduring?
\nI have seen men of resplendent promise die
\nIn the ravishing bloom of their youth;
\nI have seen great leaders of spirit
\nObscured by patina of time.
\nHistory has buried magnificent artists,
\nAnd noble men disappear from man\u2019s thin memory.
\nMan\u2019s power is a twinkle in God\u2019s mood.<\/p>\n
The glory of wealth can be grayed over
\nBy one stubborn nasty stretch of market.
\nPolitical power snuffed out by a wicked election.
\nPopularity is a rickety pedestal
\nThat can turn slippery with one scandal,
\nOr falling out of fashion.<\/p>\n
Human body is a fragile gift of nature
\nThat can crumble with one disease.
\nI have seen revolutions of just causes
\nSuffocated by inertia and ignorance of masses,
\nChoked to death by brute power of the elite.<\/p>\n
Everything in life seems to be temporary,
\nExcept the stupidity of man.
\nWhy are we trying to make grand edifices on a bridge,
\nWhy are we trying to change life to what it is not?
\nGod\u2019s vision is written on every micro-event of life.
\nBut grandeur of man\u2019s spirit glows in the infinite layers of time.<\/p>\n
I often walk the evergreen path down the hill,
\nWhich in each season wears a magical costume.
\nTulips in spring raise their natty heads in solemn dignity
\nAnd the aristocratic aloofness of roses frames their iconic beauty.
\nThe charismatic presence of a weeping elm seduces silently.
\nIf there is any permanence in life, it is in these.<\/p>\n
After the day\u2019s brutality we are soothed
\nBy the delicate caresses of the evening,
\nSublimating into the nirvana of the night.
\nIn the evening we want to jettison the crassness of our ego
\nAnd the vulgarities of the world –
\nBut we want to invite the charioteers of the spirit.
\nArt of living is in how we spend our evenings.<\/p>\n
Let us usher in beautiful women to talk with
\n(Men are obsessed with their bodies,
\nNever exploring the sublimity of their spirits)
\nAnd bring smooth wine to galvanize our mood.
\nLet music embellish an inspired moment of life.
\nLet us smell the fragrance of earth
\nAnd absorb the romance of the Milky Way on horizon –
\nLet us dream for a while.<\/p>\n
An evening is an hour of beauty,
\nOur connection with eternity.
\nIt is the consummation of human consciousness
\nWith all that is and that can be.
\nLife is temporary
\nBut the beauty of God is infinite.
\nSometimes I think the poetry of human heart will never die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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