IN
SEARCH OF TRUTH
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U. Mahendran (India)
Where it is to be located?
Gone missing for a longer
time!
Could it be stolen?
Had it been on a hideout?
Who would know its
whereabouts?
Certainly, God must not have
any knowledge about it!
Might have become tired of
suspicious dealing;
As that has amplified
corruption,
As sincerity got punished to
accommodate vulgarity,
As influencers have increased
by diminishing honest-lovers,
As under table transactions
are skyrocketing to destabilise virtues,
Then how it would make itself
visible!
Could it be massacred by the
young?
As they do many and perfect at
none,
Adore gadgets and deplore
being practical,
Admire onscreen heroism and
annoy the begotten,
Have a reckless ride on
parents hard earning,
Just like hiccups have
multiple breakups!
Tell me if you have seen, or
experienced:
Do you feel ashamed to shout?
let that be murmured into
reliable ears,
that is possible when you have
respectable utterance,
don’t wait and get it
ruthlessly dragged,
Then it would evaporate like
the laymen’s sweating!
Investigate into the
unattended petitions:
Lying at the costly courts and
beastly ports,
It could have immersed into
those letters,
As extractable as the
corruption and the administration.
As forgotten as the urban
flower,
As unconcerned as the aged
citizen with a begging bowel!
Please don’t consult the
bookshelves:
Hush! It doesn’t dwell there,
Became lonely and left them,
Did not have esteemed exit,
Fell unconscious to be mobbed
out,
Having fanned by a poetic
paper, got up and gone away!
Further estrangement did take
place:
By the superficial take and
dishonest fake,
On the media devoted to
discourtesy and gullibility,
In action to propagate
seduction and diversion,
In full swing to keep someone
a glorified king,
Extends virtual tongue to
defeat reality and quality!
Neither it is audible nor
visible:
As hearers getting extincted
and seers being distinct,
Fly about invisibly with none
to internalise,
Lacks expensive impressiveness
to be consecrated,
Externally untraceable and
seeable looks impossible,
So become unfathomably inward
to progress immeasurably forward!
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