If I Were – Learning From All

If I were a bird, I’d be high above all,

See the world beautiful as all seems small.

Stay up above and safe to be moral,

Away from the dominant as they are frugal.

If I were an ant, I’d focus open hearted,

Have no excuses for doing what’s demanded.

I’ll work together with no thoughts of results,

Follow lord’s words to forego material results.

If I were a fish, I’d float in the waters,

Swim across the blues in the untouched corners.

Hidden from earthly who can’t breathe under,

Live freely off the blues and safe from proachers.

If I were a cow, I’d be a symbol of giving,

Share what I have without beholding.

Be alive or dead I’d help unconditionally,

Live by the words to give and live peacefully.

But I am a human and wisest of all,

With a possessed hobby to own them all.

Have the brains to invent stuff of own,

My limits to self are left unknown.

Dominance leads my way to live,

Everything I do is own but give.

Competing lives give me the thrills,

It’s easy to lie to win and have no frills.

They teach a lot if we care to see,

Un-owned creatures just roam free,

They are themselves and perform their role,

After all, we are wise and chose not to learn – but ignore them all.

Who We Are

I have made this video to showcase how small we are when compared to other species. Share it and spread the message – we share the earth, not own it, it is our duty to conserve and protect earth.

We share the earth but not we own,

With many others, in the unknown.

A beautiful world, is in what they live,

Consuming it, is what we give.

We are dots in front of them,

Owning Earth is our claim.

Eating fast the green patches,

Parasites’ and we have matches.

Make a vow to to fight for green,

Never waver to keep earth clean.

Be the person to bring the change,

May be small but attempt is main.

Make our world a better place,

Love all creatures whatever their name.

We have forgotten that we share this planet with innumerable creatures. The planet is not ours, but we share it with many other beautiful and enchanting species.

The next generation will surely not see most species that we have been lucky enough to see. For the future generation, most wonderful creatures will move on the electronic screens and not in the jungle and wild.

On this Earth Day, make a vow to fight for earth and conserve it. Do your bit for earth.

Higher Self

There live the spirits of the great sages,

The higher altitudes are some unexplored places.

Higher are places where life is pure and simple,

The places where the urban is a cripple.

To reach the high we term adventure,

For we the urban wish to be greater.

Tired with lives we seek the mountains,

Unlike other creatures who solace in their dens.

We run away to seek the higher purity,

For the highs remain untouched by our cruelty.

The highs will not accept our dependent forms,

It’s to guard its purity against our crippled mourns.

Struggle physically as we climb,

Consequence though is a cleaner mind.

The cripple inside struggles to live,

As we climb and become more free.

It breathes heavy wanting to stop,

Reminding us comforts if we drop.

Fight we must such evils within,

For we breed them beneath our skin.

Living off modernity we are disabled,

Pampered with comfort we turn in to crippled.

A higher self wakes as we climb,

Outside is sweat, within a cleaner mind.

Thoughts tell to fight the evil within,

Search the soul and clean the sin.

Weakness called comfort makes us quit,

The soul which is pure makes us grit.

Fight we must to conquer the evils inside,

A higher self gives it no place to hide.

Higher  up lives the purity untouched,

As did the sages of the past discovered.

The holy highs feed the mind,

Teach our spirits to never subside.

A spiritual experience truly it must be,

Not the feel of fun the evil plans it to be.

Arms are raised with thoughts of victory,

Thoughts to boast to every human we see.

Preach not your deeds for they can be evil,

But preach the stratagem that killed the evil.

Follow you may what the greats preach,

But fail not to mix it with what spirits teach.

Learn it through not materialistic words,

But read it through the great scriptures.

Need not search for a material teacher,

For your soul is your own preacher.

Cleansed with the climb the soul conquers,

Helping you stop evils from being your rulers.

Live your life as you are high,

For high is nearer the lord’s might.

Cleaner you become and must return,

For a cleaner you will make an angelic urn.

Nature on the highs gives you much,

Pay it back is what you must.

Teach and preach to give love to all,

For the hatred within makes us fall.

Aid others to conquer and succeed,

And you shall have helped your breed.

Loving others is your payback to nature,

Guarantee that higher heavens will call back in future.

Words are mine but learned from nature,

Sharing my learning with my fellow critter.

Doing my bit through these words,

Spreading the teachings from the higher worlds.

All faiths originate from the highs,

May not be through gods’,

but thoughts of pure and high minds.

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Attempt to wrote a poem on how the mountains cleanse our soul and how trekking can be a spiritual experience. Wrote this during the bus journey from Mumbai to Pune.