Last Laugh

a poem by Rafel Michael

He predicts the future through the power of his celestial stick
Predicted that the world is coming to an end at the sight of the ensuing full moon
Be ready to prepare for the doomsday, he alerted his followers
Preached to select the righteous path during the sunset of their life
To yield the eternal glory

His devotees had sung the chorus song in a revered voice
He is divine and his advises are heavenly
He’s god in man’s attire
The door of heaven widely opens in front of us and let him lead us to heaven

He predicts the future through the power of his celestial stick
Predicted that the world is coming to an end at the sight of the ensuing full moon
Be ready to prepare for the doomsday, he alerted his followers
Preached to select the righteous path during the sunset of their life
To yield the eternal glory

To his followers he is god though his actions are like an illustrative magician
When he raises his celestial stick, the magic powers come into life
His powers are without any surmise and beyond the powers of the universe
People who got his blessings realized their wishes without any hurdles
They said in one voice, he’s the reincarnation of god
He makes possible to impossible as there was no word as impossible in his lexicon
There’s no one came back empty handed after his holy darshan
He’s the omni potent and revered by his devotees in full faith and respect

He takes back long ailing illness and return to them a healthy life
Those who wanted to be rich, he made them rich at his free will
The beggars envying the rich led a luxury life as he showered his blessings abundantly
To all those who came to seek from never returned empty handed
The flowers blossomed at the path of his egress route
Emitted the fragrance to make his path as sacred one
He predicts the future through the power of his celestial stick
Predicted that the world is coming to an end at the sight of the ensuing full moon
Be ready to prepare for the doomsday, he alerted his followers
Preached to select the righteous path during the sunset of their life
To yield the eternal glory

The bad men among his devotees took his advices in different way
And thought of leading a luxurious life in the late stage of their life
They sold their properties at throwaway prices and spent their money for boozing
Old men among them got married to younger ones
They danced and sung in the late stage of their life
They got whatever they didn’t get in the late stage of their life
He predicts the future through the power of his celestial stick
Predicted that the world is coming to an end at the sight of the ensuing full moon
Be ready to prepare for the doomsday, he alerted his followers
Preached to select the righteous path during the sunset of their life
To yield the eternal glory

One among his disciples was a traitor as he wanted to attain the glory of his guru
He’s greedy and jealous waited an opportunity to steal his celestial stick
When the divine man goes to sleep

The guru holds his celestial stick in his hands while in sleep
And he seldom keeps it away from his sight as if the stick ensconced in his arm
It looks like an addition attached to his right hand distinguishes others from him
Nothing could be parted him with his celestial stick except his death

The famous magician whose divine advises become the mighty versus
Nobody ignored his advices as they felt he’s the reincarnation of god
He predicts the future through the power of his celestial stick
Predicted that the world is coming to an end at the sight of the ensuing full moon
Be ready to prepare for the doomsday, he alerted his followers
Preached to select the righteous path during the sunset of their life
To yield the eternal glory

One day the treacherous man in his game plan mixed sleeping pills in guru’s late night milk
And served him as a disciplined disciple the contaminated milk
Deceiving every one in the abode when the guru went to long slumber
He had stolen his celestial stick and put a dummy stick in its place
The divine man had lost all his magic powers overnight

When the guru woke up, he got a shivering
He felt like his bones are crushing as if the blood stopped circulation in his body
He raised his hands with the dummy stick ordering it to get him the feedback
He was anxious to know as what went wrong with his divine stick while he was in sleep
Not knowing the stick becomes a mimeograph and his orders could never be carried out
He lost all his divinity and thought his death is laughing at him
When death overrules the destiny of his divinity
He predicts the future through the power of his celestial stick
Predicted that the world is coming to an end at the sight of the ensuing full moon
Be ready to prepare for the doomsday, he alerted his followers
Preached to select the righteous path during the sunset of their life
To yield the eternal glory

The betrayer started to perform with the divine stick he had stolen from his guru
The celestial stick becomes an ordinary stick
As it lost all the divine powers when it was with the divine man
It couldn’t carry out any of his orders as it was too late
When he came to know this naked truth
The power of the stick weaned away from it since the time of the theft
Its divinity had gone for ever as the celestial stick was like a soul to the divine man
Once it was stolen from him, it lost all the divine powers
Like a soul, it cannot be reattached to his body as the divine power lost for ever
It was like a blossoming flower when it was in the stem
Once it was pulled from the stem the flower has without life

The divine man called out his followers
Said to them that he’s going for a long meditation
The wide open doors for all his devotees, then closed for ever indefinitely
He predicts the future through the power of his celestial stick
Predicted that the world is coming to an end at the sight of the ensuing full moon
Be ready to prepare for the doomsday, he alerted his followers
Preached to select the righteous path during the sunset of their life
To yield the eternal glory

When the predicted doomsday arrived, the devotees expecting the door of heaven
Thronged outside at his secluded abode
They were told that he’s still in meditation.

The full moon sighted with a glaring light, but nothing happened to the universe
The life was like any other day and the followers were restless
Those who married at the late stage of their life
Started cursing the divine man one by one
Those who sold their properties to lead a lavish life started stoning at his abode
Although the divine man was still in meditation

The disciples one by one deserted him
And yearned to see an escaping route from the violent mob
The violent mob put the abode in ablaze and within minutes
The debris fallen apart along with the divine body of the divine man
The treacherous world around his abode started laughing at the debris in vengeance
And the laugh still continues
He predicts the future through the power of his celestial stick
Predicted that the world is coming to an end at the sight of the ensuing full moon
Be ready to prepare for the doomsday, he alerted his followers
Preached to select the righteous path during the sunset of their life
To yield the eternal glory