Feel Ashamed Of What You've Become Poem by Mohammad Younus

Feel ashamed of what you've become—
so full of sentimentality.
How did you squander
your priceless wisdom, your energies,
on such fleeting things?
Pride, selfishness, prejudice, and greed—
none of these would've ever gripped you
If the illusion of reality hadn't held you in its sway.

Now, as such, you stand disillusioned,
having failed to grasp
the true wisdom, the divine knowledge
you so longed for.
You are now trapped in a cage,
in a realm where souls falter,
where lives dissolve into nothingness.

But this—this is not but a dream.
It is time now to wake up,
to shed the dust that clouds your heart's eyes,
that stops the light divine from reaching you.
The illusion shatters when you dare to see,
and in that moment,
the light will pierce through,
revealing all that you truly are.

You are not this cage,
not the shadow of your past self.
Rise up, for you are the dawn,
and in your awakening, the world is reborn.

MyKoul