Summary of the Poem 'Lord! Make Me a Sheep'

Lord! Make Me a Sheep 

- Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Summary:

The metaphorical and insightful poem Lord! Make Me a Sheep composed by The Great Poet of Nepal Laxmi Prasad Devkota was published in 1947 A.D. Through the poem, addressing to God, the poet requests to make him a sheep because he is exhausted and fed up with the so called modern human beings, their life and their behaviour. He says that he is also tired of love, thinking, knowledge, conscience, ambition and responsibility. So, he wants to be free from all these pompous things and live a carefree life like the sheep. He also wants to reject the varieties of dishes and artificialities of life, and wants to live a hermit like life that the sheep is living. Like the sheep, he even wants to be free from the fear of death where there are no desires of any snobbish things. In fact, he wants to come out from this competitive commercial life and falsehood and returns to the simple natural life. Finally, he says that he does not mind even if he dies because he knows that death is inevitable and it is the ultimate wish of God. He is conscious of his sins and wants to be the man of virtue. Praying to God, he wants blessings and strength from Him ever, wants to go higher to the heaven than the sage and Brahmin after death and promises to be happy and satisfied with what he is like and what he has got. In this way, he satirizes the so called human social and rational human beings of this world who are materialistic, selfish, greedy, hypocrite and cruel.