Tuesday 23 August 2022

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

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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