Masters

by Swatantra Sharma

Facing pain...
all complain
Unable to bear...
cry out in vain
Given a choice
tend to refrain...
or
get pushed down...
to the victim's domain
But the truly wise
willing to rise
choose to get on
the flights of pain
on their journey...
to a higher plane.

21-Nov-2013

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Comments on this Poem

Thanks and my gratitude,Mr. Ashby for the in depth review.I found it quite enlightening.

swatantra
23-Nov-2013 23:13 PM

The lyrical idealism of 'the truly wise' must include being truly stoic that I defy anyone who has had a toothache commencing a weekend with no hope of relief but a painkiller to claim. Interestingly, our upbringing is based on achieving ideal states, of manhood or womanhood, and although we fall short of these, without them we would be without a moral compass. To convert our beliefs in achievement of ideal states into fact, we invent people like 'the truly wise', particularly, posthumously, whereby a Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mandela or JFK are identified as achievers of these ideal states, a fair percentage of whom are assassinated.

rdashby
22-Nov-2013 20:58 PM

Thanks ,dear Padma and Rupa for your appreciation.

swatantra
22-Nov-2013 09:03 AM

Excllent articulation of victory over pain...very well xpressed. Here's my take on pain:
http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Poem&PoemID=16743

Padmaja Iyengar
22-Nov-2013 05:22 AM

mind blowing..

Rupradha
22-Nov-2013 04:43 AM