He had been deafeningly silent since birth. His worried parents had given up hope that he would ever speak. But when the enlightened Guru asked him "who are you?" Finally, he opened his mouth and unhesitatingly said, "I am the eternal silent spirit".
The lotus bloomed, the lilies shrunk, as the Sun rose from the eastern hills at the crack of dawn. Life seemed to emerge from its shroud of gloom and sail into a vivid dream.
In the same way that rain sometimes eludes dense clouds, poetry sometimes eludes my mind, bursting with imagination, leaving me yearning for heavenly inspiration.
I let myself be recognized more for my failures to seize opportunities for personal gain by doing things that my betinoirs wanted me to do, which benefited them and a large number of others, than for not doing things that benefited no one.
Those present had left by the time others arrived. There was no time to wait for others to arrive. Nobody was eager to see others in flesh and blood. Everyone had focused their attention on their own lives.
Hey God, You gave some people brains. You gave some people courage. You gave some people money. You made some people beautiful. But why was I left out of all of this?
Hey, wearing the garb of rich won't make you rich. Your thatched hearth still stands on the field defying strong winds as a symbol of your life's misfortune.