If what you look for in the end
is but a small garden-house,
why are you now driven by the
desire
to conquer all the world?
Here, now, prepare to live
in sweet-contentment
in a garden-sanctuary:
and joy will soon be yours.
Like the two earlier volumes, the latest-SIRIKKUM
POOKKAL-is also structured with 5 sections of children’s verse,
and a section each of story-poems and humorous verse. The
highest values, the sublimest verities, achieve recordation in the
simplest possible ‘living language of the tribe’. Yes, this our right
hand, these our two hands, are God’s gifts of Grace-but to
what end?
What’s this God-given hand for?
For
gathering food and eating it.
What’s this God-given hand for?
For
bathing and keeping the body clean.
What’s this God-given hand for?
For
wearing clothes with elegance.
What’s this God-given hand for?
For writing fair and for reading.
What’s this God-given hand for?
For hand-labour day after day.
What’s this God-given hand for?
For rendering service to others.
What’s this God-given hand for?
For ardent worship of the Lord. |