A Heart to Heart - with God

Bindu Sharma posted under PenMuse-17 Poetry on 2020-03-12



The lamp illuminates Your picture.  I kneel in obeisance as the day fades,  Your golden flute sparkles with fairy lights,  The peacock feather emits a myriad of shades,  Your blue hue reaches new ethereal heights.  A few random strokes of my paint brush,  A more benign look and the hint of a smile,  A few more jewels, robes more plush,  And lo! You are beauty personified! Are you more of a God now, Lord?  If I draw wrinkles on a weather beaten face,  The flute I replace with a begging bowl,  The silken robes, whoosh! tattered robes I paint,  And now, my Lord, are you in a pauper's soul?  I need an answer, God.  Mankind lives in a maelstrom of beliefs,  Heads bent, they salute me with gold, And push away the leper and the old.  Treat both equally, whispered He,  For I am him and he is me. 

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