Be Not A Sheep. Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Tethered by the past, enslaved by routines,
Battered by the struggle of the living
And a victim of conditioning imposed
By the society, man is a caged beast.

Human is bound by hard mentality
As the pack evokes safety and compromise.
There is a descending force at work,
Moulding the personality of a man.

One needs to give oneself to this force.
If one is open, this force can function,
Going deeply into his nervous cell,
Which one can consciously experience.

There is a process of inner alignment.
An individuality grows in shape,
With persistence, and the wholeness develops,
‘You know yourself' as Socrates pronounced.
08.01.2019