Anchorage/Seattle
Covid Years
An offering to Prabhupada, our guru:
In these last two years
We felt a buildup of fears
In a battle of usual peers
We witnessed a shedding of tears
With large-scale character erosion
Sadly there’s community implosion
Sunk in a lake of irrational emotion
Is it all a lack of devotion?
Even Saints seem to be hating
Satan’s presence – intimidating
And highly incriminating
Seeing viruses and prices inflating
Misappropriation of finances
These are Kali Yuga advances
Is Shiva doing his destructive dances
In such chaos what are the chances?
Does the solution lie in activism?
Or in peace driven pacifism?
Certainly not in capitalism
How to address a narcissism?
Where does all this take us?
Do our leaders forsake us?
Is there anyone to wake us?
Is there anyone so gracious?
All fingers point to you
Prabhupada, it’s true
In analysis and review
Whom else can we pursue?
Do we just step right back
And see our own personal lack?
Why do we give others flack?
Isn’t it better to self attack?
You have given us everything
Wisdom, music, food for a king
How to serve, how to sing
All that involves a healing
We follow or we fall
It makes no sense to stall
When we started it was a crowd
Now we move, sit and stand tall
We clutch onto your lotus feet
We utter the Name and we repeat
We read, teach, know how to treat
We start this project, we complete
We must end our messing
Look hard at our possessing
Detach and do that assessing
We continue to receive your blessing
- Composed by Bhaktimarga Swami, The Walking Monk©
May the Source be with you!
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