IN PURSUIT
ARVIND K. PANDEY
Life you are an implicit implication
For men honest and serious
Soaked in life’s reality and not illusion
Find themselves indebted in wounds.
Happiness is always momentary and sadness stationary,
Life’s corridor impracticable and narrow,
Face once mirthful, now tearful.
Have emotions like stagnant water,
Learn the art of penetration and power to bear,
Oh 1 when it flows leaves marked impression
Determined to make its path, be it rocky or plain.
Here you have to live only for days fewer,
So don’t weep but smile O wise man,
Kindness you shed, thus granted be your prayer,
For man like you a place suitable lies not here but in heaven.
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