If wishes were horses,...

If wishes were horses …

26.12.2011.

© Vinay Vaidya 

If wishes were horses,

Beggars would ride,

For they don’t know,

The wishes are the horsemen,

Who take them for a ride!

To reach far-flung destinations,

The dreamlands,

And leave them in the cold.

Had they known the wishes,

They would have known,

- Their intentions,

In the guise of desires,

Hopes and fears.

Had they not been carried away by them,

Had the horsemen not carried them away,

In some brief moment of unawareness,

Had they watched,

How wishes come to them,

How entice and tempt them,

They wouldn’t have succumbed,

To their whims.

No,

No beggar ever gives it a glance,

Could understand their motives for sure,

Had he given even by chance,

He could know them,

And in the process himself as well,

Would have noted his worth,

And ignored them,

Enjoying the freedom,

Of not being a slave,

Rather a ‘Swami’ in true sense.

The ‘Master’,

Only a Master knows,

The whole movement of ‘desire’,

Of ‘Fear’ and ‘hope’,

The essence,

Of psychological ‘Time’.

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