Monday, 4 October 2021

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Yorkville, Toronto

Loose Tongue Monster (About Gossip)

 

My latest poem:

 

Gossip is the cowardly unofficial occupation of a jerk

Volunteers are either on part or full-time work

Call it a toxic tongue, a plague worse than a pandemic

A dirty and dark behind-the-back dynamic

A casual chat where the truth is not confirmed

A devil’s radio whose broadcast can’t be reversed

Gossipy people have nothing of substance to say

Fabrications from their mouths are always on display

It’s a syndrome, a condition of verbal diarrhea

They are rumour addicts like alcoholics on tequila

 

Do take note that those who gossip to you

Will inevitably and eventually gossip about you

And those who know so little about you

Suddenly become an authority having all the goods on you

Perhaps the greatest human offender is the gossiper

Though feeling their contribution the status of a philosopher

Little do they know that gossip, a lethal weapon

Will act karmically as if to beckon

Like a boomerang that’s suddenly released

And comes back to haunt and strike like a beast

 

So stay away from this back stabbing game

Stay away from fault finders who bear no shame

Stay away from Loose Tongue Monsters of Derision

And hold hands with folks who have some vision

A superior investment to being critical

Is to point out the good in an individual

Don’t let that big fat mouth try to obstruct

Two good listening ears poised to reconstruct

Any hope for a rumour monger perhaps is our deep prayer

A call for a miracle, compassion, and help on a major repair

 

-Composed by Bhaktimarga Swami, The Walking Monk©

 

May the Source be with you!

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