Heavenly Jealousy

Heavenly Jealousy

P K Routray

Up from heaven

celestials look down,

see they earth

with beauty and mirth

Their Eden stands no where

when earth’s grandeur they compare.

Visit they must

to enjoy the earth’s crust.

“The Creator has shown favor

difficult His mystery to decipher

He goes to the earth very often

gets birth there as man common

pass on them His creative power”

thus made them bitterly sour.

They went to the creator

to tell his acts as improper.

To see the earth from close quarter

God gave them powerful binocular

Lo behold! they saw abysmal picture,

under human vices the earth in torture.

Shocked were they at the creator’s plight

prayed Him to take another incarnation and on the earth to alight.

Offered they themselves to be His messenger

to go to the earth to serve needy and poor.

Saying holds “Distant Mountain looks green

barren and bald when it is closely seen.”