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 sombre truth
But yet not a sorry you
The interim 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 assess, assess of contrast, contrast thy eternity

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