Desire is inborn; <br />Fear is implanted; <br />Both at loggerheads. <br /> <br />Desire defies not; <br />Fear concedes not. <br /> <br />Desire goes stealthily; <br />Fear rules steadily; <br />Passion oozes wisely. <br /> <br />Desire dies slowly; <br />Fear echoes proudly; <br />Life lies listless. <br /> <br />One lives only once. <br />Next whence? <br />Why this pretence? <br /> <br />‘Eat, drink, and be merry! ’. <br />Charvaka says. <br /> <br />‘Annihilate the desire, <br />Pray, slave and repent <br />Till you die’, <br />Moral teaches us. <br /> <br />It is left to you to choose <br />There from <br />13.06.99<br /><br />Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/be-wise-3/
