TWO BASIC QUESTIONS

TWO BASIC QUESTIONS



I am a soul, I wander
In the vast universe.
I know not whence I came from,
Nor, to where I am bound.

Do I have a creator?
There must be one at least.
It’s rather clear to me that
I did not make myself.

Do I have any purpose?
Someone did me create.
He must have had a reason,
Though yet unknown to me.

Could he ever desire that
Those whom he created
Should fight and kill each other,
Out of intolerance?

It is, therefore, quite clear that
My purpose must be this:
That I love my brethren and
All whom he created.

I think this simple thesis
Answers the two questions:
Is there a God in the world?
What’s my purpose in life?



* Written in 7-6-7-6 format.

* Words like ‘his’, ‘creator’ etc. have not been capitalized because the poem starts inquisitively, without preset notion or belief in existence of God. It is only after His existence has been established on the basis of the admittedly “simple thesis” propounded above that, in the last stanza, the word God has been used.


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M C Gupta
21 April 2005