IMPETUS

 

IMPETUS

 

 Confess secrets of my life,

The heart bit had been colored,

The color was changing so often,

The culprit was the mind coaxed,

Played with my life, sought pleasure,

Hues changing due askance lit,

Tell my life story of hard work,

Smolder desires caught dreams,

Hard work, touchstone magic,

Turned everything into reality,

In time, it gradual changed my life,

Youth period of study, job faced,

It happened success feather touch,

Grab in time or slips for good,

Opportunity never comes again,

 The second time rejected a delusion,

Burned midnight lamp to work,

Achiever a false name performed,

Got a good job, a flourishing career,

Touchstone monthly compensated,

Admit got what luxury means,

Asset to gadgets searched the best,

Least worried, to pay and acquired,

My residence was the epitome to show,

Selected trending standard items,

Decades I spent accumulated,

Tell surprisingly confide to you,

Dissatisfied, frustrated, angry life,

Mind turbulent tortured hell,

Drinking conceivable pleasures,

Tried to hoodwink impulse killing,

Failed to define pleasures, perfect,

Drink the elixir of love betrayal flavor,

Intention lurked in the guise of gold,

Denied, deserted, life single, probing,

Where lies the true satisfaction, links,

Linking to what valuable items,

Balance is in weight like to spend,

A futile effort  to read books, studies,

No ready answer got suggested,

Queried learned people learned,

Hour-long lecture advises failed,

Tell, you frankly mind was wild,

Behaved like a monkey tore papers,

The booked tickets for travel,

Torn tickets were looked at vainly,

Canceled the tour vacation,

Waited impatiently, only now socked,

First time felt fail to understand,

Never understood mind its prowess,

Impetus misunderstood conned,

Tricked mind my heart was playing,

Hardly could digest mind cons,

Betrayed conscience fools the soul,

Thinking how peace will creep nicely,

Finds my heart true love selfless,

Again I can smile heartily  to dance,

Life is precious, but tomorrow is not an end,

I sought help from enlightened,

Knew after practice fruitless,

What I have not achieved amassed!

A night of peaceful sleep passed,

Is it peace so rare priceless a truth,

Can't I purchase, spend everything,

None could answer convince me,

Searching for the unique impetus,

The city once walking in the road,

Found an octogenarian man I met,

A loincloth, bare chest, no shoes,

Long beards, bright eyes, healthy,

Surprised, introduced, inquired,

Got an answer to find peace, simple,

Approaching ninety years single,

Practically without assets or a home,

Healthy, agile, spirit energetic,

Answered the peace, is in your mind,

Difficult to search for peace outside,

Win an unruly mind to get an impetus.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra