Dive and Believe

Give and Believe

P K Routray

Lost in desert,

dying of thirst

to his surprise a man could find

an abandoned house, a hand pump behind.

For a glass of water

he pushed and pulled its lever.

Pump was dry hence failed to deliver,

frustration in the man loomed larger.

Prayed he the Almighty with unflinching faith

to save him from the certain torturous death.

Found he, on sudden a small jug with closed cover

at top tied on it a scribbled paper

directing to use the jug of water to prime the pump

before operating the lever to get the water from the sump.

“Drink you water, thirst you quench,

to get cooled, in water you may drench,

again in the jug fill the water

and put on it the scribbled paper.”

The pump looked inoperative and out of order

the man had the doubt, whether the pump could ever deliver?.

put if he would the water expecting pump to pump out water

the water in hand would vanish and with no water his life would wither.

Dilemma as to whether to drink the water

or to abide the instruction on the paper

forced him to ponder and to pray for a way out.

Followed he finally the instruction as his inner voice he could not flout.

To his utter delight the pump could deliver water

He drank water far more than the contents in the jug,.

got fresh lease of life, water serving as his life saving drug.

To the paper he added his lesson to share which has taken him aback.

“You have to give it all away before you can get anything back."