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Truth and the Myth: Couplet Quips · A. R. Narayanan — chapter 10 of 18 · ~371 words · public domain

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What happens if truth and lie vie? The lie will stand up and truth lie!

Wailed aloud as you came, availed eventful life, Prevailed, you will leave leaving others in wailing grief!

You correct yourself, The rest will mend itself!

You can assert your right if you are right; Only can falter when you are at fault!

Choose who loves you Than whom you love!

We can reap only what we sow; Fortunate few reap from mere show!

If you work with your hands, looking up, You will rise unto heavens, and up!

Camphor burns to smoke leaving not even ash and odd, Emitting fragrance of selfless oblation to the Lord!

Note down, nothing will go into nothing; If you have nothing you will have nothing!

Let you be punished for default, But never be it for deceit.

I have rich learning, culture and manners; But beset with poor food, health and finance!

Be prepared all the while for bitter curses; Boons may come, once in a while, as bonuses!

Better to soothe the victim of your ill deed Than to confess before Minister ordained!

I'm a lighted but unburnt wick of yesterday; Don't throw me out when am willing to burn today.

I had pleasant dreams about life; It all turned a nightmarish strife!

Muezzins have to call from Minaret To arouse our prayer instinct?

Which gauge can measure acuteness of pain, Depth of love and degree of emotion?

Present life is a present of bygone past, Only purest present presents future best.

Statistics establishes a lie numerically; The opportunist takes advantage of it cunningly!

Swinging justice's scale Is offered for sale!

"Fowl of air sow not reap not": They feed on other's grain and fruit!

"Seek and ye shall find", the Lord sayeth; But we seek what we can't find on earth!

"Thy faith hath made thee whole"; Now, money maketh all

"Put new wine into new bottles"; Put new thought into newborn minds!

Man boasts, he could land on moon, But could he, as on land, walk on?

Coin is minted round to roll From hand to hand, that's its role.

Confinement is bondage, Even in golden cage!

Someone's mistake of yesterday Might be social rite of today.

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