Najma's Notebook

Web of deceit

Caught in a web of deceit
Some find it not hard to cheat
Cheat their souls, cheat their minds
They truly believe in the axe they have to grind

Ego the ultimate goal
For children sell the soul
Education to free them from serfdom
The posh and expensive will ensure freedom

Fallacies of the mind
False sense of serenity it reminds
It’s ‘I know it all, I know it best
Stupid indeed are all the rest

To justify the stand
I have to prove I am grand
To make me better others must be wrong
Sing it long enough, that’s my song’

When survival is at stake
Easy to clutch to all that’s fake
Survival of ego the core of being
Prevents one from living, truly seeing

To give up ego so hard to do
To imbibe reality and all that’s true
Too painful, too difficult to face
When of kibr and ego there is still a trace

Web of deception , Shaytan’s ploy
Admire the mind, chief source of joy
Only thing to clutch and hold
When the universe around collapses and folds

The working of the mind the ultimate alter
Shaytan’s hold is firm, doesn’t falter
Seeing things as they are they cannot do
The ‘should’ and ‘ought’ are their cue

In deception mode they judge
From their opinions they cannot budge
Serenity they do not allow in
In the mind there’s endless noise and din

Children the demigods and their education
The stand is right, they see no ramification
Give up, give in then give no more
On this stand they will hold the floor

To die a death of kibr
Truly makes of one a fibber
Caught in the web of deceit
On judgment day what a horrid receipt

Caught in a web of deceit
Who else to fool who else to cheat
Ego intact the major feat
Never mind if it’s an ultimate defeat

A web of deceipt
An endless repeat….

© Najma Ansari
Johannesburg 2 February 2010