One moment is All

Another day he received

Twenty and four gold coins.

And in agreement with his

Primordial practice, he assumed

Again a pretended seriousness

To make an optimum use this time.

A delusion he was to himself but to none.

Detached he stood and observed march past of

Another detachment of limitless moments with

A disinterested unwariness.

Then he was recaptured by the same rhetoric of

Covert deeps of his self.

And a stream started flowing:

One moment is all. Indeed, the whole.

One moment is life, one moment is death.

One moment is love, one moment is hate.

One moment is success, one moment is failure.

One moment is undying, one moment is fleeting.

One moment is real, one moment is dream.

One moment is eternal

And all else is an ordained change.

While he regained unconsciousness,

Hence he began:

One moment is so trivial,

Just the wink of an eye.

Rizwan Saeed

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