Day 19: A real dark World


The poem I am using is Rabindranath Tagore’s -where mind is without fear.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high 
Where knowledge is free 
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments 
By narrow domestic walls 
Where words come out from the depth of truth 
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection 
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way 
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit 
Where the mind is led forward by thee 
Into ever-widening thought and action 
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake
Opposite
The real dark world.
My mind looks around,
With fear in the heart.
My head is hung down,
Burdened with too much guilt.
I pretend to do know,
But I am unaware.
Of the bitter worldly affairs.
The world is now broken,
My people, their minds and thoughts.
Fragments are now scattered.
Behind the mysterious wall
The tongues have transformed,
They only lie.
Even the heart doesn’t know,
What’s in your mind.
The clear stream of truth is turned into swamp,
Perfection of evil everywhere.
Our mind is now full of fear!
In green forest alive with restrains,
The mind is held back.
Father I pray thee, ‘Protect my country
From the engulfing darkness,
From being held captive,
With a mind in fear!

Note: Not exact opposite but I tried clearing it up, and teach some lesson side by side.

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