Surrender

Surrender

P K Routray

With bowed head and bent knee

surrenders a vanquished   enemy

to the king the victor

trembling for any frenzied order..

This conception of this surrender

from the tales of my grand mother

ruled me over silencing my then childhood query

“Why does not the vanquished pray for His mercy?”

Observed I a child’s surrender

to his all-powerful loving mother

with fearless laughter

as if it finds its Lord in her.

With growing age and  ripening wisdom

realised I the Lord as all powerful and awesome,

Over the scriptures I surveyed for an answer

as to what is the feel of the real “Surrender?

To get the ultimate wisdom and happiness perpetual

“Surrender the man must to the Lord unconditional

With his desires finding no deviation

from the will of the Lord of the creation

accept man must without an iota of protest

every occurrence as His boon for him the best.

With unflinching faith in the Lord

His protection, man must always feel assured.

With gratitude to the Lord for everything

His greatness the man must joyfully sing

On this earth with empty hands man landed

everything here to him the lord has handed

on such surrenders man should be proud never.

Thus to the Lord the man defines his surrender.

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