Rough and Soft – I

a poem by Ramesh T A

The spoiled people listen to the villainous speeches
Although the day’s heat is at the top most pitch!
But I listen to nightingale’s song I like most
As its easeful voice is as joyful as a good feast!

Choice of love for hatred is a most welcome medicine
As it’s natural to cool down heat to keep up human nature!
Rude fellows and gentlemen move shoulder to shoulder as
Good and bad, day and night, birth and death are common!

Hatred and love, anger and humour, lust and love are such
That they fluctuate in the social life of men in the world!
Strong handsome men and lovely tender women live as
Flesh and bone, sweat and blood, nail and skin together!

Stone and fire, matter and energy, body and spirit are
Two in one like Siva and Sakti by Nature in the world!
Spirit in Space and Time, Matter and energy creates
Great wonders in the Universe vast and wide everywhere!

Strong mind and soft heart make perfect in one human being!
For every hard cover there is a soft inner core in general;
Hard ploughing on rough soil generates soft corns and grains!
Extracting rough ores only we get fine metals, silver and gold!

Inside the sweet fruits there are hard nuts and seeds too!
Inside the hard nut only there is very soft kernel, know!
From the energy only matter is evolved in the course of time
Also, from the atoms only enormous energy is released!