You Couldnt buy
You could purchase a pair of teeth; but you couldn't buy their scintillating shine,
You could purchase a handsome tiger; but you couldn't buy his thunderous growl,
You could purchase a glamorous rose; but you couldn't buy its mesmerizing redolence,
You could purchase the entire valley; but you couldn't buy its unfathomable depth,
You could purchase a mammoth slab of ice; but you couldn't buy its frozen coolness,
You could purchase sprawling territories of sand; but you couldn't buy their sweltering heat,
You could purchase a cluster of opalescent striped nightingales; but you couldn't buy their enchanting voice,
You could purchase boundless meadows of grass; but you couldn't buy the coat of
dew drops glistening on their surface,
You could purchase the sapphire blue dolphin; but you couldn't buy its rollicking leap,
You could purchase dexterously sculptured paintings; but you couldn't buy the artists mind,
You could purchase the colossal lake; but you couldn't buy the fish proliferating inside; every unleashing second,
You could purchase a pair of eyes from the eyebank; but you couldn't buy their
emphatic rays,
You could purchase knotted fingers; but you couldn't buy the things they wrote,
You could purchase a sparkling jewel; but you couldn't buy the impact that it had on your destiny,
You could purchase a swanky car; but you couldn't buy the speeds at which it traversed,
You could purchase a slave; but you couldn't buy the uninhibited freedom of
his thoughts,
You could purchase a woman; but you couldn't buy the love residing deep in her conscience,
You could purchase an idol of God; but you couldn't buy the omnipotent power it
was capable of executing,
And you could purchase a heart; but you simply couldn't buy its violently palpitating beats; the overwhelming tenacity it had to grant new life.
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Submitted by nikhilparekh on October 15, 2019
Modified on April 03, 2023
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Characters | 1,824 |
Words | 300 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1 |
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