§ Footprints § Poem by VIPINS PUTHOORAN

Once I searched for salvation
With my blind mind and sinful heart
Through the breast of a secluded land
But salvation was smiling,
As my wickedness was myriad
Because this kaleidoscopic world often conquer us
With its multifaceted desires.
I fell down in a swire between sin and life,
I lost the chastity of heart and the virginity of soul
And I became broken and sectile.
None knew my lamentation there
None knew where I would be.
The voracious mouth of sin engulfs us,
When we wish for a cherubic heart
We always want to see an azure sky;
But we never see the blue sky of life
When it's already been there for us
One must not follow others footprints
Though it may be their ups only;
Their ups and downs have no effect in our life.
You try to put your best foot forward at all times
You try to learn from the life in front of you.
These footprints are never to be followed,
Which I left here in the abyss of sin
If you follow my footprints,
You'll reach in a nadir like me
Where we cannot open our mouth
As we're enchained here,
Among the blood sucking vermins
Of a sulphurous hell.
When we lived in a world of freedom
When we lived in our own ways
We'd never thought of a monstrous hell
Where we would be chained and tortured.
Myriapods will crawl through your nostrils
And no one will hear your growl.
Myrmidons of the hell would beat you,
With the edge of sledge hammer in your head
For the grudge once you had showed
To the downtrodden people of earth.
Your flexible body will melt in a crucible.
The demons would fill the embers in your mouth
For you'd never fed a pauper in your life
The evil will whip on your back with an anchor
Where you cannot fight with them alone
Or we cannot fight with them together.....
Oh! that would be a frightful sight
That you've no life or death in hell
That you've no life or death in hell
O my brethren! open your eyes
Foresee the right path before you
Try to put your best foot forward
Without following others footprints.