You Die; I Die - Love Poems - Part 11 by Nikhil Parekh - HTML preview

34. THE SIMPLEST WAY TO PLEASE ME 

The simplest way to please a bird; was to place her lost eggs right in front of her majestic beak,

The simplest way to please a dog; was to give him a juicy bone embedded with raw strands of salubrious meat,

The simplest way to please a snake; was to offer your leg; for it to greedily inject its stream of lethal venom into,

The simplest way to please a writer; was to provide him an atmosphere of blissful peace; boundless sheets of paper and a jeweled pen in his fingers,

The simplest way to please a fisherman; was to give him a net heavily laden with an amazing fraternity of fishes,

The simplest way to please a desert; was to inundate its surface with an ocean of water; a thing it hungrily absorbed within flash seconds,

The simplest way to please a crying infant; was to provide him the compassionate warmth of his mother,

The simplest way to please the doctor; was to tell him that all his patients recovered after taking his medicines,

The simplest way to please the red ant; was to lay broken crusts of bread in front of its eyes; which it painstakingly nibbled till its heart's content,

The simplest way to please the slave; was to tell him that he was your master instead,

The simplest way to please the peacock; was to keep it in an ambience with pelting droplets of rain,

The simplest way to please the ominously gleaming green crocodile; was to sprinkle its vicinity with a million chunks of meat everyday,

The simplest way to please the farmer; was to make him witness his fields blossoming with bountiful corn; each stalk of his treasured grass swaying in rubicund health with the winds,

The simplest way to please the mind; was to verbally yield to each of its fanatic fantasy; although you didn’t actually execute it,

The simplest way to please the cow; was to leave it to wander in meadows of leafy foliage; engendering it to enjoy munching its favorite meal till eternity,

The simplest way to please the black cat; was to place it in a pond of frosty milk; facilitating it to gently lap at the same and thereby permeate the air around with its contented snores,

The simplest way to please a shrewd Business tycoon; was to place the blank checkbook for him to ogle in front of his eyes,

The simplest way to please a Politician; was to say that he was the greatest; and his policies had metamorphosed the earth into a veritable paradise,

The simplest way to please a soldier; was to award him for his stupendous achievement at war; with felicitation of the highest degree,

The simplest way to please God; was to diligently execute all your duties without the slightest of delinquency; procreate prolifically to continue his chapters of existence,

And the simplest way to please me; was to keep me with my beloved every second of the day; see to it that no power on this earth could ever separate us; and we remained bonded together for centuries unprecedented .