Deception Poem by Shaikh Mahmud

The lust for luxury,
All these profits, worldly,
The wants of treasury,
And the longing lechery.

The World as you see, Oh! Listen, listen ye.

The limousine's floridity,
And the ornamental embroidery,
The carnivals, festivals, and their glee.
And the acreage of jollity - joviality.

The World as you see, Oh! Listen, listen ye.

All this a somber truth,
But yet not a sorry you,
The fleeing tide of ecstasy,
This all is to delude.

The World as you see, Oh! Listen, listen ye.

Thou shalt not indulge thy mortal bliss!
Though a dulcet dream, but momentary,
A bewitch to beguile, a dreadful chicanery,
A deception to discern, contrasting reality.

The World as you see, Oh! Listen, listen ye.