Let Live

The Moon, The Monkey God and The Mall

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Let Live

Doubt baffles us,

Common sense concedes

a dignified defeat,

Reasons demand

their essential refinements,

Groping for clues in outmoded scriptures

leads us nowhere.

How to define truth,

We are always advised against

tampering it for an extra exactness,

If we insist, we would reach

the door of wisdom unwittingly

where from nobody returns

unaffected, safe and sane.

All that enables survival is the truth--

It is as simple as that

Right to live is a paradox,

Let others live with us

as long as we do not need them for our living,

Or let them kill us, eat us and then

live as long as they can,

It is a long drawn contest

Success of one is guaranteed.

And we all go at the end

floundering our way through

the winding course of oblivion.

Winning is surviving

And a winner tells the truth,

A loser is a liar

He has only excuses to offer,

We react with sympathy if

 we can’t just reject it.

Bhubaneswar

26-10-2003

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By

AN Nanda

Shimla

1-4-2013

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