My Pledge-2022 Poem by Mehta Hasmukh Amathaal

My pledge-2022
Thursday,6th January 2022

Let people know my form
and remain well informed
about my defeatist views
I have taken full care to observe few

people ask and take a vow
to allow
few changes to take place
to save the face

What shall be their pledges?
'I shall try to manage'
do harm to no one
and remain neutral

I may not commit an outrage
and remain in raging mood
follow the thought as food
and be with the peace in the neighbourhood

such things you feel when in the graveyard
and exchange the word
with the dead
search the soul and remain well read

but this is momentary
it peters out the moment you enter society
pray the good to excuse
and start refusing all good practices

so, I tale pledge for the new year
but refuse to follow with the fear
that it may take me nowhere
and I have to follow what I was doing earlier

Dr Hasmukh Mehta
D.Litt, Folt
World poet laureate
© Hasmukh A. Mehta