Assessment

by Rajender Krishan

The materialist postulates:
“We live only once”
and ironically
keeps dying every day.

The mystic asserts:
“We die only once”
and blissfully
keeps living every day.

14-Jun-2023

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Comments on this Poem

So true!
Being in this world with 'contentment ' is living indeed.

Neera Pradhan
16-Jun-2023 08:55 AM

Very nice

V Ramabrahmam
15-Jun-2023 02:43 AM

Too good! A positive contradictory terms which deserves congratulations. While the first stanza espouses the principles of Sage Charvaka, the second reminds us of Gautama Buddha who renounced palaces and luxuries to attain Nirvana once and for all. Reading this poem reminds me of Oscar Wilde's story of the Happy Prince.

Satish Bendigiri
14-Jun-2023 21:32 PM