Monday 17 October 2022

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Queen’s Park, Toronto

Charm Boy

 

This is the month of Domodhara, hence this poem, “Charm Boy”

 

He is both menacing and adorable

His sweet innocence reveals He’s not deplorable

Babyhood charm is written all over His face

And wherever He is he transforms that very space

 

That space is on earth and beyond the skies too

His parents impose upon Him a decent curfew

Yet He sneaks away at night under the moon

After plotting a rally of monkeys and friends by noon

 

The plot is to scout the neighbors’ homes

And swarm their butter stock like bees to honeycomb

There is success in the break and enter

He is definitely left, right and center

 

He then gets caught red-handed by His mother

For His hands are moisten by thick, smooth butter

His mother decides He must learn a good lesson

She grabs a stick and starts a chasing session

 

But He’s fast on His feet with speed He goes

She runs and due to fatigue she slows

Tossing out the stick she manages to stop Him

From here on it may appear to look grim

 

But not so, she secures a rope to bind the Boy

For both persons there is a mixture of fear and joy

Mystically the rope of lesson and love

Cannot tie him, frustrating her thereof

-          Composed by Bhaktimarga Swami, The Walking Monk©

 

May the Source be with you!


 

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