Through this poem, I wanted to convey the reality of the current era in the world about how even a good person may also fall prey to immorality and is depraved... I being narrator describe in the first - three stanzas that I have been lost in a dark forest,symbolising when a person is in a difficult situation, Then In next line, I try finding help from an old man, but he disappears symbolising the mean and selfish people in the society who don't bother helping someone in trouble and refuse so easily without even considering the plight of the person asking for help Then I wrote that I saw a lady who is trying to harm me symbolising that as the person in trouble is not getting Help from anywhere then his/her problems are increasing even more, Then In the next line, I also see many witches around me and so I am trying to run away from them for my life symbolising that the troubled person is under the worst situation therefore he/she is making all possible efforts to sail through those worst circumstances. Then I wrote that those witches caged me and shackled my hands symbolising that the vexed person fails even after trying so hard and is then locked with in the precincts of problems in his/her life Then I have written in the next line that I saw a demon (lucifer) who is feeding a cow (heifer) symbolising that at the end of failed efforts, that person finds an evil person who seems to be ready for helping him. Then, in the next line, the demon uncages me and asks me to bring a jasper (semi-precious stone) for him so that he can regain his lost super powers and become powerful again symbolising that a bad person helps you only if you are of some use to him and can help him get what he wants. Then in the next line, The demon makes me realise that in the Age of Vice (Kali Yug) when no one helped me then he came to my rescue so I have to defray the cost of his help symbolising how a bad person convinces the troubled person whom he saved, into believing that even in today's selfish world, he helped him so the afflicted person has to do him a favour by doing what he wants him to do for his own benefit. Thereafter the troubled person also agrees to him as he is indebted to the bad person as he had helped him. Then i have written that the demon gives the information about where the jasper is kept and by whom it is guarded and how that guard can be defeated, symbolising how a bad person panders the afflicted person into doing what he desires by guiding him to follow the immoral path... Then in the next line, the demon tells why he can't bring the jasper by himself , and that's because he is cursed so to get that stone he needs someone who can easily help him and also a person being indebted towards him, and won't even disagree to his demand , symbolising that how bad people takes advantage of someone's misery and travails to accomplish his immoral aim which is not possible without someone's help Then I have written that, I begin my adventure, and went to the forest where I found thorny bushes symbolising that now the troubled person is ready to foot the bill of the help provided by an evil person to him by following his guidance and therefore he encounters more pain (i.e. thorny bushes) and suffering in life for his wrong decision of helping the evil person Then In the next line, After getting the Jade, I went to collect jasper which is guarded by gnome so to remove him from my way, I raised the Jade high which can absorb his super powers as the demon had told , symbolising that the troubled person does all that the bad person had asked him to do being indebted to him In the next line, the gnome outwits me, as the jade falls on the ground and by changing his appearance , he futher threatens to curse me to turn into ash for I came to steal that stone, symbolising how the afflicted person being corrupted by the bad person and influence had been landed under the most unwanted situation of being punished for something that he is not doing for his personal gain instead he is doing all that because he is bounden to an evil person who would not let him go without receiving the payment of his help. Then, I wrote in the next line, I pleaded to the gnome for his forgivness symbolising that a troubled person finally realized that he did such an unrighteous deed to save his life by helping a bad person for his obligation on him. Then in the next line, The gnome replied to me that he will take his curse back and forgive me only when I promise him to forget this adventure of mine, symbolising that a troubled person gets the lesson of his life as he gets a second chance to attone for all those actions that he did under the influence of a bad person. In the end, I wrote, that As the sun diffuses its light, I am awakened from my dream, symbolising that now the afflicted person got a new lease of life that is a new chapter began in his life with a new day and that he is awakened from his sleep, as now he knows never to assist a wrong person i.e., Even if it comes to rescue your own life but never ever take the help of a bad person.
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