Lay Your Bed As You Like

If you do not critically assess your situation
and take corrective measures,
unfailingly you will be forced to do so
under the glare of everyone
without an ounce of privacy and dignity,
accompanied by the derision and gloating
of your detractors.

If you refuse to be visionary
in charting a collective route
for societal rejuvenation,
you will be resigned to the fate
of scattered debris
that the wind tosses and turns
and eventually dumps
in the random and empty wilderness of time.

If you favour the immediate satisfaction
of momentary pleasures
and selfish abundance of the few
and decide to avoid the brief passing pain
of rigorous perseverance,
refusing to invest towards reaping
tomorrow's orchards,
preferring to eat today's seeds,
you will be bequeathed
with flapping, tattered cloths,
treeless barren spaces
and harvest the dry empty bowls
of beggary!

I no longer care.
I will join you to bemoan
the sorry state
before I return my head
back into the sand
like ostrich thinks it is hidden
with the disappearance of its head.

The choice is yours.
Yes Yours!
As they say:
You make your bed,
so you must lie in it..

Let us all lie.
And sleep.

Haidar Wali 201701221358hrs