PHILOSOPHICAL POETRY OF DR JERNAIL S ANAND

OF ME AND YOU
Dr. Jernail S Aanand

I am not taking up any love story
Of me and my beloved.
It is the tangled story
Of my two selves which never agree.

I am a body, with a heart
And a soul,
Complete in itself,
A sound mind in a sound body.

But sometimes I hear,
I am broken like Jarasandh
Vertically from in between
My mind often takes a stand away.

As the times are passing,
I find myself splintered in a hundred pieces
So is my mind,
Which has lost its unity.

The ultimate result is
I am a whole shape in body,
But I don’t know
Where my mind is.

I am torn between a hundred options of being,
Be, not to be, just to be, only be,
Less than be, more than be,
Happy to be, sad to be.

So, gods seem to have improved
Their systems.
Death is not a one time affair.
It comes in pieces.

They break each item of my body
And mind, one by one,
When body becomes a standing ruin,
Blow it into elements.

The proud palace dwindles
Leaving the mind behind,
Which moves behind
With its shattered consciousness.

*Jarasandh was a king in Mahabharata, who had a body which could be torn into two parts and these two parts would rejoin. Bhim had hard time killing him in the War.

THE FINISHED PRODUCT 

Jernail S Aanand 

Policies were taken so seriously 

That teachers were kept busy 

In computing data 

Submitting reports

And forcing  students 

To break records and win.

Those who lose in this competition 

That education has become 

Have no market 

At the most 

They can open cyber cafes

And cook some money like hot cakes.

So much is there in the market 

Everything has to be 

Flushed into 

The minds of the students 

So that they are always trembling

To look at the unaccomplished work

All teachers who talked of values 

Of goodness were singled out 

As rotten pages of academic fraternity 

You know Ramayana, 

But what use it is 

Unless you have Scopus score.

Teachers professors and professionals

Are in a race with each other 

Just after skills 

And how to make money, 

And  how to succeed in business.

If you are not a success,

Hang from your bath tops 

Every student by the time he has gained MBA

Must have following qualifications 

Otherwise no firm will hire them

Ruthless competition

Heartless success mongering 

Even one feeling can infirm you 

From appointment with a great firm.

Love, compassion, kindness, goodness 

And family,  

All such colonial baggages are 

To be ticked out or they can stand 

Between you and your success.

Just focus on punctuality, 

Growth and profits.

The Finished products of this University

Don't fall to  easy  temptations

Like good. 

Or even God.

It is an Evil world 

Whose finished products 

Can be seen in Universities and colleges.

THE AUTHOR

Jernail Singh Anand is President of the International Academy of Ethics. He is author of 165 plus books in English poetry, fiction, non-fiction, philosophy and spirituality. The Academy of Arts and Philosophical Sciences, Bari (Italy) honoured him with the prestigious position of Honorable Academic. He was awarded Charter of Morava, the great International Award in Creativity by Serbian Writers Association, Belgrade at the60th Belgrade International Writers Meeting (Oct 2023), and his name was engraved on the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. Recently, he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy [Honoris Causa] by the University of Engg and Management, Jaipur abd Noman Survivors Literary Award from. Naji Naaman Foundation. His most phenomenal book is Lustus:The Prince of Darkness [first epic of the Mahkaal Trilogy]. [Email: anandjs55@yahoo.com Mobile: 919876652401[Whatsapp]

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