Truth hides its face
From others
As its face is pockmarked
And wounded here and there…
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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TRUTH
(Tongue-in-cheek)
Those who can speak nonstop and loud
Whom you find always addressing
An invisible crowd
Are messengers of some
Alternate faith
Which believes in a lower god,
Not necessarily on the side of Truth.
One great characteristic of truth
Is that it stays behind
And never picks up the mike
To blare itself out.
People discover it lying concealed
Its hands cuffed and mouth stuffed
In a dark dungeon.
Truth hides its face
From others
As its face is pockmarked
And wounded here and there
Whenever she opened her mouth
She was attacked with
Naked weapons
And forced back into her dingy abode
Truth is beauty is a daytime reverie
And beauty truth is
A tissue of lies.
Truth is Hemlock, ask Socrates
Truth is a revolt against judgement
Those who stuck to truth
Had a feud with ‘wisdom’
Which we carry in our hearts.
Final thing is not truth, pardon,
The final thing for a man is
To survive,
And there is no survival
In the absence of compromise
I think of this as Livtorian Compromise*
Which stipulates that you must hold up truth, only so long as it does not bring your down.
Objective truth cannot be compromised
But we can alter our personal truth
Which is protean in nature
To suit every occasion,
Learn to save the situation
Lies and mischief
Everything is passe, I believe
If you can save yourself somehow and survive.
*
(We all know about Victorian Compromise
The compromise for survival is here called
Livtorian Compromise) Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer)
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