a wish

Far from the medley of humanity

into that valley of peace

where everlasting peace and happiness

nestle among flowers of abundance

and neither strife nor work of indignity thrives

Where flowers of all hues and colours

let forth the fragrance of love

and many a bird that roam

the endless firmament preach

the fruits of honesty and of right living

there unto myself will I build a hut

not too much just a hut and with

hands long caroused by age

plant a banyan in whose girth

long afternoons caressed by sleep

pass endless the journey whence ceases to be

in whose slender trusting tresses

children play fearlessly and in whose branches

sparrows and cuckoos and many a bird alike

sing song the beginning of a new dawn

where no fear and hence no violence

where no man goes without food

and yet no strife and no peace disturbed

where all are equal and none no more

and thus a lifetime shall pass