Pray, learn to live with a light heart
Learn to have it absorbed in you
That this world is not as it has been made to be
Learn that here, you shall be thrust upon thorns
Continuously tested
So as to be deemed fit for release!
Why do you worry so much about the mundane
Why do you care to fill your grip
With that which cannot be contained
Pray, like air, materialism is much needed
More as a comfort than a luxury
Like sand, though, it shall escape your grip
And fall to where you shall have to keep on walking
Like water, it shall keep changing its forms
So that even if it remains much needed
You shall have to learn to adjust and adapt to it!
Why, is living with a light heart so difficult
Is your mind bent on being attached
And do you see my words as being foolish and void?
Pray, do take the time to sit still
And enjoy the feel of the breeze on your nose
Take the time to open your soul
And to realize that you, in your life, you are merely a moth
To be fulfilled, you shall have to meet with your attracting blinding light!
Insightful, didactic!
The general reader will find this to be a fine example of this author’s inimitable poetic metier.
A well-composed, probing, contemplative poem.
I fully agree with your view that life is a testing ground. Nicely penned.