Vinaya

By Doel Sengupta

What is the law of my land?

Is it lions trampling over grass

Or people trampling over people?

Or is it prouncing tigresses

Serenading me into Paradise.

As you cut the wires

Humanity rises

And we conquer the law

And we end the rule of the saw

And we keep the hulls away

And the skulls in sweet parlay...

This is the law

The end of the saw and the hull

And the axe and the dynamite

So that fairies and goblins 

Can take over the world

And we win all the time

As our voices chime

In Vinaya

Sweet law

Of do good to beget good

And that is now understood--

Sweetest Vinaya.