River and the Boat Ferry
At the banks of Varanasi
asked a boat ferry
o river! you flow so happily?
ah! I go where I'm destined to be...
"you flow day n night
so tirelessly yet so calmly
no time for joy, no time to merry?"
"you don't see my love as I flow well! that's the real tragedy..."
"they call you "poor solvent"
and still, you feel happy?
don't you get angry, don't you feel pain?"
"tell'em my water is pure
it absorbs their sins
it hides every stain..."
"hey! I don't mean sarcasm
but "water water everywhere
not a single drop to drink?"
"ask Coleridge to have faith
I got plenty of nectar to drink..."
said the boat ferry,
"they say the man is superior
he ferries on you?"
"tell'em lord is superior
he made me and he made you..."
"excuse me! can I make a query?"
"sure!" said the boat ferry...
"man is so ignorant
what forms his vanity?"
"the answer lies in the question itself..."
said the boat ferry...
"But what's there the harm
with a little bit of vanity?"
"where there is vanity,
there is no humanity!"
"ah! you call humans fool
and yet talk of humanity?"
"that's because I hate humans!
but I love humanity..."
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