Belief System

Belief System

P K Routray

A gigantic elephant

as a weak  infant

is kept under control

being tethered to a pole

where it fights but fails .

The tethering system prevails.

In spite of painful burnishes eludes it, the freedom

in the process, in it by then develops a belief system

“Impossible it is to break free from such a tether”

To break it a grown-up elephant never attempts further

In India man walks barefooted over a fire bed.

Least care they even when the bed is hot red

to get rid of incurable diseases and to dispel evil spells

often with a positive result - a fact not a fictitious tale.

To the mental power, a belief system can mar or mend

blessing one with endless hope or crushing with hopeless end.