Fallacy & Lucidity


I hear a voice
“No! Don’t you step out; Yes! Do it now!
Animals, objects and numbers
Do they signify portent?

“A black cat has just crossed the path.”
Stop! Bad forecast it brings
Repeat “rabbit rabbit” with the onset of a new month
Godsend, will it be?

Alas! Even numbers echo good or bad omen
666, the number of beasts
Friday, the 13th hapless in western superstition
13, fluky for some, unlucky for many

Seven years of bad luck
Breaking the mirror brings
Open the umbrella indoors
Invitation to ill luck, is it?

Lady bug, Horse shoe, lucky bamboo charms or number seven
Will these bring fortuity?
I am baffled
Numbers or objects, will these vary the trail!

If so, then why to ponder!
Let it bring quietude to the advocates
Buoyancy to the skeptics
And concord to all God's creatures.















Comments

  1. Shelly GurpreetMay 30, 2020 at 4:58 PM

    So many superstitions! I wasn't even aware of so many of these. And yet life was taking its course. Superstitions or not, life goes on. Guru Nanak Dev Ji showed us the path, let's follow that by meditating on the name of Waheguru ji.

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  2. Mustansir FazalMay 31, 2020 at 8:31 AM

    Numbers may have something to do with but our perceptions can't perceive them.
    Animals and objects also may have their own chemistry with surrounding physics but that too we can't fathom as we have become only physicist when we say I believe in science.

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  3. Amandeep SinghMay 31, 2020 at 5:50 PM

    Brilliant!

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