All Roads Lead Somewhere Poem by Praveen Kumar in Celestial Glow

Deviations, deflections, refractions, rebellions -
Seed of basic growth to diversifications,
Enrichment along the course of tribulations,
Bold trials on dark roads to move somewhere,
New directions and goals discovered afresh;
Roads are dark; directions, unknown,
Only blind souls while clouded in thoughts
Hop to hopeless gulf to reach somewhere
While shocked onlookers look wide-eyed;
All roads lead somewhere, winding or straight,
And bring new depths to what already there:
A novel discovery from distress' womb.

Seed of light lies in darkness' womb,
Ladder for height lies in gulf's depth,
Taste of joy hides in distress' spread,
And freshness, in old trite of stillness;
While life stands still, no spur to move,
Barriers are crossed in clouded emotions
In sudden jerks, in long leaps and bounds,
Just to unfreeze, bring life-force to shape
And shed the treaded path for blind routes;
Wherever one goes, he reaches somewhere,
From whatever furcates, joins something new,
Indeed run is long, thorny, full of windings.

Settled and still, peaceful, but stale,
Certain, expected, no novelties anywhere,
No expansions contractions, nor excitements,
No fears of unknown, no shocks from known,
It is all calm, grave peace of graveyard;
Deviations, deflections, refractions, rebellions -
Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami, cyclones,
Uproot deep roots, swing to sky heights,
Throw on unknown earth to scatter and rot,
Only to shoot again to a new height
That render world around deeper and richer,
In new layer of growth in old still world.