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SONGS FOR HEAVEN (IV)

July 4th

For the bird, up in the sky, swimming in the air.

For the sun or for the moon staying close together with the earth.

July 4th

For the squirrel up on the tree

Up by a flight of stairs.

Up & home.

July 4th

Is for the wind showering her love upon my face.

And for the wind flowing into the valley fresh and cool,

And pervading my senses.

July 4th

I lie imprisoned, by the walls of avarice and greed.

The walls of many doors and locks of the human self’s

Only I am aware of the conflict.

July 4th

I lie imprisoned.

July 4th 

A promise & hope, the president assures.

You are fighting the war alone, all alone.

Pres. There is no one on your side.

The people are on their own jobs

Acquiring more and more for their little earths.

They will not help you fight the enemies of the nation.

July 4th 

I lie imprisoned

July 4th  I see outside

The monkey, and dinosaur, and every beast

Say july 4th.  Don’t touch me says a girl – cutprit, to a cop.

Don’t ask for my card, this is a country of liberty”.

July 4th never lasts more than a few moments of vision,

For me.  My spirit unassiled, I wait for its permanence.

July 4th, for a second, I see god’s face appear, but then,

Soon I see the permanent humanfaces of greed and avarice.

The usual, the familiar, the ugly only remain left with me.

July 4th up in the sky, as a star.

We, are, on waters.  At sea.  Some on land, some trying to fly.

July 4th , a little dream word, for saying goodbye to 

Miseries still unsaid.

Songs for Heaven

Man has lost much of his sanity

By mostly believing in false and hollow things

By celebrating a wrong feelings, a wrong thought

Which grew later into a wrong faith,

He has smeared his views and blinded himself

Nodoubt he has defended evil concepts

And straight away embraced the darkness of the evil

What is evil is merely what is of no use to earth

What is evil, has no power or force of its own.

It is men like you and me who give it help to stand up.

We feed it with energy and we fight for it.

We do it because we are ignorant of it.

We do it because we thing it benefits us much.

Not caring to know whether it hurts others or the earth.

Nodoubt there is benefit, instant and physically felt,

That accrues from the evil.

But it really is forsaking a chance for eternity

By opting for a transitory bliss.

It is like sex without love

It cannot last long.

Because you have pledged your immortality

For a mortal and flimsy momentary joy.

Once your thought or action jeopardizes the earth,

The nation, or the society or merely an ignorant or

Innocent fellow humanbeing, you will be injuring your own

Future life.

Evil is merely a weed that grows in the farm or garden,

In your heart or mind, as an instinct or through,

In yoiur intellect or soul as concept or faith,

in the society or nation as an anti – element. 

You must stop its growth wherever it grows.

If you fail, your future will fail you.

You are related to your future distant or nearer.

This cleansing process is everyone’s responsibility

One who fails in it, betrays creation’s intention.

The power to preserve, is uniquely man’s

Preserve congenial things to life of the earth.

It is not difficult to discriminate the good from the bad.

Keep sharp reason to cut the weed.

Keep true love to promote the good

And use your faculties of the self

For improving the common good for all. 

D.Parameswaran