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Harinder’s poem is about the ephemeral world and climate change – an exclusive for Different Truths.
Here today, gone tomorrow This World is an illusion The Tethys became the Himalayas Even the topography is confusion Mountains have transformed into seas Arid deserts have swallowed swamps of grasslands The face of the Universe is changing every moment We feel stationary though everything is in rotation The Sun, the Earth, and the Moon are in constant motion The director sitting in heaven is playing a movie on the screen And he has very cleverly put us in a "Time Machine" We live in the Past, Present and Future And then pass into oblivion This is a journey in a tunnel without any destination There is light at the tunnel's end A light that can only be seen but no one can comprehend We are all knowledge seekers trying to reach the light And to reach it first, there is a constant fight Between the scientist, scholars, poets, and sages All have been struggling for ages To reach the light and find the ultimate truth All have spent time, money, effort and their youth Only enlightened souls have walked beyond And the rest of us are confused in this commotion It is because we look outside and avoid self-exploration A search within can only bring around the realisation Those temporary surroundings cannot be "real", And this World is an illusion The day we realise the truth, we will be free from all fears and frights The dark tunnel will vanish Leading us to the eternal light.
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