* "When mortals to heinous gains are lured* * Their doom...

* "When mortals to heinous gains are lured* * Their doom, eternal, is procured* * Wallow in lustful lap of wealth* * With a joyful face, sparkling health* * Gloat over, regale, waver not* * Indulge, frolic; then meet your lot* * Perpetual remorse, unceasing pain* * (Ceaselessly equate the ephemeral gain)* * Truth sustains, exists, prevails* * Knavery flops, infamy fails,* * Repent you surely will, I warn* * Callously, my "platitudes" you scorn.* * A dealer in platitudes, l am not* * Explicit support for the faith I sought* * Sanity, ethics, sense I preach* * Pursue I do whatever I teach.* * With effortless clarity I speak* * I never talk with tongue-in-cheek* * A torch, to light your way I show* * Follow its beam and safely go.* * Initiate don't an abject act* * 'Tis futile if done and then retract.* * All discernible trends in human thought* Previous…