‘Don’t keep knocking all the time
Give me space,
There are times
When I don’t like this face.’
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, a renowned poet and writer from Chandigarh, India, shares his mystic poetry
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, based in Chandigarh, is an Indian poet and scholar credited with 170 plus books of English literature, philosophy and spirituality. He won great Serbian Award Charter of Morava and his name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. He was honored with Seneca Award LAUDIS CHARTA by Academy of Arts & Philosophical Sciences, Bari, Italy 2024. He is Founder President of the International Academy of Ethics and conferred Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) by University of Engineering & Management, (UEM) Jaipur. Email anandjs55@yahoo.com
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SPACE
It is always good if we can give
Space to the person we love
And do not keep
Messing with him all the time.
If we keep thinking of someone
It is sure a sign of our love
But too much of anything
Or anyone is not love but obsession
Obsession with anything or anyone
Has its negative consequences
We need time, as he does too,
For other things to do.
People who are stuck in life
Are often found in obsession
With ideas or men who deny
Freedom to them and themselves
God once stopped me when
I kept calling him
Morning and evening
And chanting his name nonstop:
‘Don’t keep knocking all the time
Give me space,
There are times
When I don’t like this face.’
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ALL THOUGHT, NO ACTION
All the chaos in the world
Is brought about by people
Who think think and think
And don’t act when required
The people who did not act
Have caused more injustice and cruelty
Which could have been avoided
Had they acted in time
Tolerance is a great quality
Good only to an extent
By not speaking up you defy angels
And side with the devil.
Hamlet’s indecision is
What rules this world
Tragedy marks human fate
When men don’t act, just procrastinate
Men are judged not by their indecision
All thought and no action
Is no virtue
In ultimate evaluation.
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