Desire

The pauper wants riches
The hungry want food
The demented wants sleep
Nobody knows what’s good

The loser wants victory
The victor wants fame
The failure wants success
The loner wants dame

The owner wants profit
The labour wants right
The society wants order
But still we continue to fight

The diseased wants health
The meek wants power
The senseless wants senses
The naked wants a cover

Nobody knows what they want
Nobody knows what they need
Nobody knows themselves
It is just greed they feed

Needs and desires never end
But hey they are good
They are the fire in our belly
And that is why things are the way they should

Agreed that root of all suffering
Is our desires and want
It is as was said by great men
Can’t abdicate them I can’t

Close your eyes and imagine once
How our society will be
If all relinquish their desires and needs
And renounce whatever is worldly

Nobody works nobody cares
A world full of sages
It will stop the evolution of man
And take us back to ages

All cannot be learned at once
There will be only a few great men I say
They will teach us why and how to live
But these things we won’t obey