Kalpana Chawla, The Glory Of India Poem by Sasikala Kamandula

Many a million do take birth
But only a few live with life on the earth
Showing the charming proof to their worth
Defining the meaning of life after death.

The first woman in India to be in space
Kalpana Chawla sketched her dreams;
Since the child age looking into the sky
Twinkling with stars up so high
on the terrace during hot summer nights
When all the family was in sound sleeps.

She powered the barriers of all the boundary
With her grit and spirit of true industry
Choosing the risky study as a customary
And thus made her story a golden history

Appointed a Shuttle and Station Staff Crew
She mounted the heights of a Captain Crew
The Colombia shuttle’s STS-87mission drew
Off at the heights of lakhs of feet just in the view.

Had she cared for rich Silicon Valley job
Would she have been alive as you and me in mob
But never swayed away from her goal and dream
That made her to be different from the human stream.

She wished to move around the stars
But she became one of the stars;
Twinkling in the sky brightly with pride
She shows the path to you young mind.

And you too folks, never flee from your life target
Dare to dream and dare be different
Live the life of pride to parents,
And glow in the Crown of Mother India!