My Career! Poem by Ramesh T A

When I was directionless losing all chance for a good career
At the beginning of young age, I expressed my feeling of great
Dejection, disappointment, disillusionment and hopelessness,
(I decided to write) in a poem that made my only best friend
To advise me to become a Poet writing poems in a diary what
All I felt and ideas that were wonderful according to him then!

All kinds of writing was beyond my jurisdiction due to paucity
Of time and so, I wrote a few lines then and then and completed
Full poems taking time and wrote only just twelve poems only
In 17 years because of confusion to follow any form of writing
And then only realized that my talent was in writing poetry and
I have become a Poet to write poems continuously for about three
Decades besides doing business out of obligation to fulfil elders' wish!
Otherwise, I would have become mad or a vagabond or a suicider!