Life, A Loan Lent In Trust Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Life is a loan lent to us in good trust,
Not to be frittered ‘way in lures and lust.
Now is the time, before be done— back to dust,
To pay the due with interest as must,
Helping those, higher are whose needs, and just,
Love those rendered by human greed unjust.

Fortunate be those well past wants, and worst,
Lucky to pass by the needy, and first,
They may not cross again needy man's nest,
And able be to quench their parching thirst,
To help those who by destiny are curst,
And aid those by society left to rust.

For, life's a loan lent to us in good trust,
To be paid back ere we are done to dust.
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Sonnets | 09.12.04 |