Ba Lethanh | Wednesday, 08 September 2021 | Print
Ba Lethanh
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One day I found myself like the wind
Soaring high to the sky, I was flying
I saw two gods they were discussing
Talking about people while flying,
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Curious, I was following up while gliding
Overhearing the words as the following
“People in the worldly life are materialistic
To love money, fame, know nothing indeed
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For its importance, they try to create
They do any wickedness for getting it
Until they have been in disaster strikes
Their property is like foam, they ask why
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The final result they must receive it
For their evil deeds, they are punished
Two Gods obeyed the Creator’s order
God of Good and God of Evil, the examiners
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To go around the world for considering
Good and evil deeds people are doing
For blessing or need to punish them?
How to be human better as a theorem
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Two Gods went to many lands worldly
Good people were blessed with property,
Also, many bad people were punished truly
God of Evil brought them down calamities.
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One day they came to a so strange land
The wind and clouds unusually changed
A place was filled with so much evilness
The earth, sky, and sea are in darkness
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People here were so eager to win truly
Fraud and deceitful for fame and money.
All day, profiteering they tore together
Their relatives they didn’t release as ever
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Their friends they didn’t recognize, you see
In wrath, God of Evil wanted to be crazy
“Why is there such a corrupt, bad place!
We right away purge to cut their life fate
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“I want to give a cataclysm on them
For water drown their corrupt realm
God of Good heard this and quickly offered
“Wait, humans live in life in their pleasure
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“Often blinded by fame and profit as ever
Their ignorance creates a lot of karma.
Heaven has forgiving piety ready to create
I come there to test their heart, just to teach.
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God of Good descended to be a poor beggar,
He went back and forth, begging everywhere
He was often being chased away, you see
The rich were hideous to scorn him only
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They let the dog chase him, barking and biting.
The poor didn’t want to be near him for fearing
They feared he’d rob them of their belongings.
Even children who were good-natured beings
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They also made jokes with mocking words
As their roadside entertainment to search
God of Good was still patient the second time
He turned into a rich man living like a king’s life
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He brought gifts and food to give people
He did charity, distributing to poor people.
People heard they could have it for free,
Struggling, they don’t follow the priority
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To the point of moral disorder
Children trampled on the elder
Brothers and friends were jostling
Stealing one another and shouting.
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Greedy men held food heavy unable to go
Several belonged to the rich were showed
Even mandarins were greedy, worthy to blame
Robbing rice from the poor, what a shame!
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He pretended as a Taoist the third time
He both walked and preached moral life
“Who does a good deed will have blessings,
Who does evil things will have a day harming
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The people of that land lived atheistic life
They didn’t trust in Buddha’s or God’s guide
They didn’t respect any morality either
Good things He preached, they didn’t care
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They thought it was okay not to break the law
Anti-conscience deeds but they could do more
They thought they could do such things,
They didn’t think of right or wrong things
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They smiled while listening to him preach
Someone pretended His voice to speak
Then to add and remove his teachings
To go everywhere slandering, mocking
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Saying that He agitated people, spread heresy
The mandarin sent soldiers to find Him, you see
On-road full of notice of arrest order
With dirty words always attached here
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At that time, God of Good was reluctant
In sad mind, He had to leave that land
The God of Evil watched to observe truly
In that land, how was human psychology
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God of Evil knew about the test indeed
So when He saw God of Good retreated
He calmly smiled and said with emotion
“Not that you lost all your compassion
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Because they couldn’t change at first
I need to erase this area of the world
Unforgivable events happened sadly
I must show the real God’s majesty
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The God of Good said in his reluctance:
“Let give them another chance to change
What will they do in troubled times?
Will they repent or not for their life?
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So before you start as you wanted ever
Heavy rain, floodwater buried this area
You would do what you try to reason
I only ask you for a relative solution”
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“Don’t worry, I’ll create the epidemic
I will watch them in this pandemic
Just-in-time if they were more perfect than?
Conscious, they would right away change
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If they have some thoughtful mind
I’ll open a better way for their life
For them, I will circle the classification
Punishment varies from person to person
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The cataclysmic I am postponing
After I have finished my testing
We will discuss for the last time
If I have to do, please don’t mind
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Copyright@Ba Lethanh (Abahn Leth)
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Posted 10:00 am | Wednesday, 08 September 2021
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