Sannyasi

sorenbarrett

We live in a world of entitlement

Where everything is expected

Material things are our enjoyment

Emotional well being is neglected

 

To appreciate, sacrifice is required

Gain by loss is driven

After death, Christ new life acquired

Ganesha a new head was given

 

When even hope has lost its way

And you have to look up to see distress

Until all you have, you give away

There is nothing you will possess

 

Odin tore out his right eye

So all wise he would be

Not so much as a word, Job did cry

Despite all of his misery

 

To reignite ashes now grown cold

For the phoenix to raise and fly

You must be strong, even bold

You need an internal eye

 

Still not enough, further fuel is needed

Compassion, charity and more still

Avarice, gluttony and envy defeated

Take from your mouth to feed who wish you ill

 

Putting oneself behind all others

Not judging a single one

In one's breast the love of mothers

To not even an enemy shun

 

Brutality, venality, or morality

Choose wisely what you're remembered for

Sacrifice guarantees immortality

As your life's final encore

 

  • Author: sorenbarrett (Offline Offline)
  • Published: April 11th, 2023 06:47
  • Comment from author about the poem: a Brahman who having attained the fourth and last stage of life as a beggar will not be reborn, but will instead be absorbed into the Universal Soul
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  • 2781

    Made sense to me.

    • sorenbarrett

      Thanks for your review and comprehension

    • Bella Shepard

      Wow, I am blown away! This is such a wonderful treatise, in poetic form, on a society that has embraced self importance to the extent that it has lost sight of the meaning of the word "selfless".
      Perhaps "selfie" is truly an appropriate moniker these days. Such a life fails to find meaning and value in its superficial existence. Perhaps it has to get worse before it can get better, I can only hope. Thank you dear poet for this wise and very powerful piece.

      • sorenbarrett

        Thank you Bella you humble me. I so appreciate your review and most kind comments.

      • L. B. Mek

        Brilliant!
        more power to your enlightenment
        wise Poet
        that you choose to share and hope
        despite knowing it all
        is testimony to your lion heart's
        laudable defiance of unbending
        bravery!
        (onwards, dear poet kin
        how sweet this accursed breath
        how salty our tears of refrain
        hoe poetic this legacy we boldly
        ink)

        • sorenbarrett

          L,B. I think I enjoy your poetic responses as much as the poems I read. Thank you for your support and most kind words.



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