The Devil’s Workshop

Health, wealth, prosperity and success

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Are only in the book and the parched scroll

Heads in the clouds and heads will roll!

For no reason will your neck be wrung

No wonder the good die young

Hapless victims of other’s crime

Alas yes, for they hadn’t the time

Better dumb than to be thought a fool

But for once I defy this rule

And risk being thought crazy

Blissful are they who are lazy

To those who wait everything goes

Happiness lies right under your nose

Peace and harmony you will find

In the retreats of the idle mind

Time and tide wait for none

And the early bird gets the worm

But don’t leap before you look

For the early fish gets the hook

But don’t take to heart what I say

The sun sets on another day

That the idle mind tossed away

I made a bed out of hay

He came today and left with a smirk

Possessed me and was at work 

And so these lines I wrote

The scriptures, even a devil does quote

Akshay Ranade