Remember Your Good Past Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

ne gets memory pleasant or bitter.
Either of them comes to remembrance.
It is bitter thoughts that surface often.
One tends to recall mostly bitter thoughts.

To recall pleasant thoughts is to drench the ego.
To recall bitter thoughts is to wilt the ego.
Remembering of bitter experience
Must be replaced with happy memories.

Bad thoughts lead to anxiety driven thoughts,
Which in turn will bring about angry thoughts.
Hopelessness and pessimism will accrue.
Depression and hallucination may be the end.

Now and then remember happy moments.
More often recall how you have helped others.
Muse on the occasions where fortunes played.
The habit of getting bad thoughts will wane.

Calmness of mind comes when one focuses
On a single thought for a long time.
It helps in reducing traumatic memories.
Mind, your thoughts will not alter the outcome.
27.04.2019