How Many Maddening Desires!

How many maddening desires,

Obsessions and preoccupations,

Passions from a time long past,

Fell by life’s wayside unwittingly,

Without any effort, not even a thought,

Just like a leaf, dried-up and dead,

Falling down from up in a tree,

As life’s noon turned to evening

And time raced ahead in a rush.

Sensual titillation of many a kind,

Having a ‘good’ time, making money,

Seeing places, travelling around,

Reforming others, changing the world,

Working for an 'all-round revolution’,

Dreaming of a ‘global transformation'

And bringing Heaven down to Earth:

These desires and more have now

Almost completely disappeared,

So much so one can possibly say

That there are few hankerings

Left now to pin him down,

To this our earthly realm,

So, if the call were to come

At this very moment to depart,

To leave this body and the world,

For good, and never to return,

It would be welcomed with alacrity,

With joy and eagerness, enthusiastically.

You might think it a predicament sad,

But it might actually be a blessing,

For perhaps it’s when all earthly desires

Are over, extinguished, once and for all,

No hankering left that may hold one back,

Pulling us to return to this fiery realm,

Life after life, in a constant cycle,

That one won't be sent to Earth again,

Being retained then in our Eternal Home,

That exists perhaps on some far-off plane,

And in that blissful realm might remain

For all time to come in God's company.