Gods liquidated my bank
Which had accumulated losses
And become a red entry
In the divine exchequer.
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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THE BANKRUPT
Life gives you some capital
And then waits
You multiply it
Or just squander.
There are very few people
The most wealthy
Who know the art
And they strike gold.
I was clumsy
Didn’t know the art
Of love and expansion
So, finally turned bankrupt.
Loving myself was no virtue
Doing so much was just amiss
Where was the art?
Where was bliss?
Gods liquidated my bank
Which had accumulated losses
And become a red entry
In the divine exchequer.
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CONTRABAND
I learnt every art
By my heart
There was so much
On the earth to learn
And the knowledge of the world
Made me realize
How ignorant I was.
I wondered at the gods
Who has sent me into this world.
So ill equipped
Or given me currency
Which did not run
In this land.
They looked at me like contraband.
Love was the first narcotic
For which they arrested me
And the second charge was
My innocence
Ignorance of law is no excuse
They said, and brought me to court.
You cannot look at this world
With an equal eye
You have to belong to
Some or the other religion
This is the color
And this is the language
Fill your ribs with poison and start hating.
This was the knowledge
I was short of, gods,
In which world you live
And what is the world to which you sent me?
They give me inferiority complex
And I have joined a University
To drive away love, innocence and equanimity.
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