Jack and Jill went up to school
When teacher asks questions
Jack listens and answers well
Jill shrinks into inferiority cell
Lack of knowledge causes pain
As a plant withers without rain
Child too droops down within
If it can’t understand something
A sensitive teacher would find
The difficulty piercing kid’s mind
Extra troubles she would undergo
Ignorance the child would let go
I too know not many things
Ignorance ties down my wings
Who would help me in life?
How would I come out this strife?
The cause of universe I know not
The cause of my life I know not
The karma cycle I don’t understand
This unawareness I can’t withstand
Why am I in this monstrous society?
Looking at Brahmins get inferiority
Looking at Sutras get superiority
Why am I a tiny in cosmic variety?
Beyond five senses I know not
Limit of blue sky I know not
Is there any one who knows all?
Who can break my prison small?
Finding for me, it is utter waste
To explore the universe vast
If I turn my search inside
There stands ego blocking my ride!
Still I know not my mind’s depth
Time cuts down life’s length
It hurts me a lot to realize
I know not even ‘I’ very close!
Raman Savithiri
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/699-it-hurts-me-a-lot-240909/
