Mount This Tiger With Utmost Care

Once the tiger of power you moun

You find well nigh impossible it to dismount!

Power easily goes to your head,

It makes you toxicity wed!

Your perspective it can well distort,

When power-drunk, to every well-meaning suggestion you have an egotistic retort!

Your vision it can severely blinker,

It can turn your behaviour into a real stinker!

Power for the sake of power is a deadly curse,

It will take your life from bad to worse,

So never such an accursed ambition nurse!

Naked pursuit of power turns you morally blind,

It is a sin of the deadliest kind!

Of your humanity it can you well rob,

It can turn you into the amoral swayer of mob after frenzied mob!

It can tempt you to barter your very soul,

It can ensnare you to slip into some diabolical role!

So mount this tiger with utmost

care,

Do it only if to use it as an instrument of good you can yourself dare!

Arun Bhagat

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