RIGHT AND WRONG

 

R. Suryanarayanamurty

 

I live in the corridor in between right and wrong

The right is the area of righteousness

Where only good deeds are performed

Where good neighbourhood, charity and love are practised

Where nobody’s bonafides is suspected

When heroic deeds are performed with a spirit of sacrifice

Where death produces no ripples of fear

But deemed as culmination of a well lived life

Where forces of evil have no chance to penetrate

As each house is built on the hard granite rock of faith

Where each one makes his life one of triumphant glory

Revolving the Dharmachakra

To live a life of subdued joy and inner peace.

 

The wrong is the area where evil has its perpetual sway

 Where people wallow in crime, sedition and intrigue

Where evil is not confined to one part but spread all over the body

Where shafts of cruelty and barbarism are used to pull to ground

Pieces of art soaked in the sanctity of a glorious past

Where diabolical plans are nurtured with devastating effect

To target citadels of power and authority

Where people steeped in a philosophy of obscurantism call the shots

And law is demonised to impose bondage and servitude.

 

As for myself I have chosen my path long back

To live in the safety zone of the corridor

Where honest people are allowed to live

Still I watch with dismay predations of evil forces

To carry away sheep and cattle

To make a bonfire, to indulge in revelry

Still I live in hope the corridor will one day become

A land where peace and joy prevail.

 

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