Crossroad! ! Poem by Pooja Karnani

I am standing on this crossroad,
Follow ‘Path-1' is what my parents told…
But first, my own dream I gotta unfold,
That string (of my dreams) , I gotta tightly hold…

It leads to a certain road
But no one knows its ‘secret code'…
But I am ready to search for it,
No matter even in ‘Ayodhya' it's hid…

When I was born,
It was dawn…
Even when did not arrive the face of the morn,
My parents decided the path of my life and its prospective thorns! !

I had always followed their advice.
No doubt, With a successful life I have been prized!
But now, it's the time for a major decision of my life…
It's time to cut this knot (of confusion) with a knife.

With all those lovely fairy tales and fables,
My parents have made me capable…
To follow the right and not the evil,
I can turn the tables on the devil!

I respect the dream of my parents,
They are my only ‘true friends'…
But my dream I cannot amend,
I am not going to be the one who simply follow the trend…

No matter how unending is this stream,
I gotta follow my dream…
I gotta search for that ‘secret code'
And make my own ‘new', ‘fresh' road…