GOLDEN

 

GOLDEN

 

Intense scrutiny, life searches,

Contemplate world manifests,

Life span decades, hit century,

Desires type shining mercury, (1)

 

Fluid nature moves, stays rarely,

Gold symbolic coin lust fairly,

Eons life witness fight rivalry,

Gold changes heart savagery, (2)

 

Father, son, in bitter battle try,

To ditch to cheat to curse lie,

Appropriate property cruelty,

Sons deprived widow mother, (3)

 

Her destiny is a shelter home,

Gold her possession lo stolen,

Look at a gold ring gem sparkle,

Once loved acquired struggle, (4)

 

Son wants my chain or rings,

In bank deposit loan strings,

Confess his study, successful,

His voyage abroad career rule, (5)

 

Link the loans mortgage gold,

Bank, appropriated home sold,

Neither rings nor house to stay,

Meager pension rented house, (6)

 

Gold created the chasm wide,

Twilight years, alarms divide,

Today, coin in hand, but gold,

Tomorrow, alas, someone, hold, (7)

 

Tried, built house mortgaged,

Lost my son lost home gazed,

A lifelong friend amassed gold,

Beautiful mansion asset hold, (viii)

 

Pride visibly thanked his luck,

Luckiest guy in the city, sock,

Gold never can provide joy,

Miseries from sickness envoy, (9)

 

Family quarrel jealousy fuels,

Peace, happiness, left a sequel,

Golden life analyzed lo failed,

Tall skyscrapers, city life link, (10)

 

Gold transformed life, yet sink,

Seen enough tension, worries,

Let hundreds of tragic stories,

Not any of friends, well to do, (11)

 

Failed to say happy, tell rude,

Escape, escape, be alone live,

Leave hunger for gold, believe,

Simple life serenity in nature, (12)

 

Human nature is pure assure,

Landscape rustic is paradise,

Golden cornfield ripe surprise,

Wind plays sways standing crop, (13)

 

Found the value spirit envelop,

Not gold, granaries are golden,

Gold can never be food shaken,

To live to grow to propagate tell, (14)

 

Coin or gold can save lives well,

Fasting, let feel the hunger truly,

A morsel of food, happiness fully!

Golden aura cornfields ripened. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Golden

Themes: Alas, gold is not golden

Written: 27th August 2023, Cuttack

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