And So This Perennial Battle Rages

When loneliness cuts into your soul,
It no longer lets you remain whole!
When what you love you kill,
Nothing that you ever
do in life will fit the bill!
When indifference sears you to the bone,
You feel as if meaning out of your life has gone!
When contempt your skin does cut,
You feel you have taken a hit on your gut!
When love out of the window flies,
The innermost cell of your being cries!
When deceipt and duplicity hold sway,
You constantly find yourself in an existential fray!
When wisdom from the shore of life recedes,
Human folly all around apace proceeds!
When conflict and discord rule the roost,
They no way your will to live boost!
When you you see a callous rat race unfold before your eyes,
You sadly realise that there could be no bigger vice!
When for naked power we see the lust,
When we see our collective conscience rust,
And see goodness being ground to dust,
At times our faith in humanity goes bust!
But then we summon our courage to live to fight another day,
And do all we can to keep defeatism at bay!
And so this perennial battle rages,
For trying to live well you have to pay these wages!

Arun Bhagat
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Be To Yourself True

Live life at your own pace,

No need to get bogged down by the rat race!

The rat race will make out of you a rat,

It is insidious enough to put you on the mat!

Stay away from its deceptive charm,

It is the gateway to incalculable harm!

Be your own person and walk at your own pace,

In it lies real charm and real grace!

You have nothing to lose and nothing to win,

So stay away from all needless clamour and din!

Be your own person and don’t go by the diktats of the times,

Do whatever with your our heart rhymes!

No need to needlessly name, fame, power, pelf and Mammon woo,

It is more important to listen to what your heartbeats tell you!

Your truth that within you pulsates and throbs,

Not heeding it you of your authenticity robs!

So be to yourself true,

By deceiving oneself no person in life ever grew!

Arun Bhagat

The Ghosts of the Past

The ghosts of the past do us often haunt,

Wonder what they from us want?

They heap upon us shame,

We hardly know how them to tame!

Our conscience they prick,

Inside us they build a hall of shame brick by brick!

Often they confront us to hold us to account,

And we are left wondering how this growling tiger to mount!

They won’t let us live in peace,

Out of our pleasant delusional reveries do they us so cruelly tease!

They are our karma come to meet us,

They will not brook any evasion or fuss!

We are left wondering how to lay them to rest,

Here repentance true and atonement alone will serve us best!

That is the only way to come to terms with this pandemic of shame,

That is the only way this runaway tiger to tame!

Arun Bhagat

Ever New Vistas They Explore

Wise people go where fools fear to tread

Because exploring uncharted territory they do not dread!

Ever new vistas they explore,

Living in the rut they deplore!

Ever new peaks they scale,

They boldly man their boats even in the face of a gale!

All-round brilliance they seek,

Not for them the life of the weak and the meek!

They are the ones who show the way

Because they are like the sunlit day!

They are above all atrocious divisions,

Of the lessons on humanity they need no revisions!

New glorious dimensions of life before us they unfold,

They are more precious than pure unalloyed gold!

Into complacent folly they can not be lulled,

They are the redeeming feature and the grace of the world!

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Arun Bhagat

Walk Out With All Your Might

When you walk into rage,

Do not be on the same page!

When you walk into stupidity,

Distance yourself from it with rapidity!

When you walk into a stone wall,

Do not to ram your head into it have the gall!

When you walk into trouble,

Do not let it reduce you to whimpering rubble!

When you walk into a ploy,

To avoid the trap all your wisdom deploy!

When you walk into jarring noise,

Save for another day your precious voice!

When you walk into folly,

Not to get enmeshed in it consider your purpose holy!

When you walk into lies,

Above the bog with all your strength rise!

When you walk into desire,

Not to get ensnared by it perspire!

Walk out of all these traps with all your might,

That is the only way to live right!

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Open Your Arms To All That Is Good

When you seriously set out to find a way,

The way will find you!

When you focus yourself on the path you wish to take,

The path of its own volition will come to you!

When you desire to do good,

You will spontaneously attract good!

When you intensely wish to reach the stars,

The stars will reach down to scoop you up!

When you determine to conquer the waves,

The mighty waves will let you ride them!

When your God-consciousness is intense enough,

God will Himself come to dwell with you!

When you resolve to conquer the world,

The world will be yours for taking!

That is the way it has been

Because that is the eternal law of attraction!

So open your arms to all that is good

And good will surely come rushing into your arms!

Then cuddle it like your baby

And it will be yours for keeping!

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While I Wonder Who I Am

Different people see me differently,

Some find me irritating,

Some exasperating!

Some view me kindly,

Others trust me blindly!

Some see me as talented,

Others are convinced that foolishness I have patented!

Some look at me askance,

Others say I induce in them a trance!

Some find me boring and despondent,

Others in me see a witty respondent!

Some claim they know me well,

In others’ minds I ring no bell!

Some think that I exude joie de vivre and guts,

Others say I have simply gone nuts!

Some see in me of truth the light,

Others allege that I yield too easily and give up without a fight!

Some hold me in high esteem,

But I count for nothing in others’ scheme!

Caught up in this maelstrom of identities, while I wonder who I am,

The world passes by and no one gives a damn!

Arun Bhagat

Aren’t Its Ways Simply Miraculous?

Life slips through your fingers like an eel,

It is gone by the time you get a bit of its feel!

At times like a mirage it appears,

You go closer and it disappears!

You hardly realise the passage of a life-span,

It is more like a flash in the pan!

From where does it come and where it goes?

From where does it bring its numerous delights and many many woes?

From where come the challenges that before us it throws?

It is an enigma wrapped in a mystery,

From where did originate its fascinating history?

Who can fathom its purpose and know its crux

When it is ever changing and ever in a flux?

Ever nebulous, still so fabulous,

Aren’t its ways simply miraculous?

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Arun Bhagat

Look at the Glory of the Moon

Look at the glory of the moon,

Fit to make you swoon!

See it caress the floating clouds,

How nature its mystery in splendour shrouds!

See it peep from behind those tufts of cotton,

With its serene joy it seems so sodden!

While it leisurely surveys the dwellings and the quiet road below,

It casts its magic far and wide though slow!

While with the reflected glory of the Orb it is drunk ,

The sprawling world below in sleep is sunk!

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Perhaps You Will My Memory Toast

Whenever a challenge comes, throw your hat in the ring,
Don’t give up and let your spirit be on a wing!
Don’t let anything lay you low,
Why shouldn’t you have a spirit gung-ho?
It is important to keep your morale high
It is so important to have a spirit never-say-die!
While you are here, why not live it up?
Why not drink the cup of life to the full?
Why should you let dejection pull you down into the mire?
Why shouldn’t you let the stars up there your imagination fire?
Why should you in your short but precious life journey mope?
What is left if you give up hope?
Why not for the moon aspire?
Why not you for scaling higher and higher mountains aspire?
Why shouldn’t you ride out every wave that hits you like a wall?
Why shouldn’t you gather your wits and get up and running after every bruising fall?
Do get up and running hit the ground,
I can not proffer you an advice which is more sound!
Someday you might remember me for giving you a push when you needed it the most,
Then I might not be around but perhaps you will my my memory toast!

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