Apurva Iyengar

Talent And The World

‘Talent’ is a soldier…
He marches ahead alone
Riding on ‘courage’,
The horse brave to be known.

Talent never wept, not once!
For ‘time’ his friend assured,
That for better things in future
Present may seem bitter

Across the mighty oceans,
‘Talent’ sailed…
And popular then he was!

One day, when the sun rose in the east.
He called ‘talent’ a beast!
Off into the sky jumped talent
On the wings of ‘haughty fame’,
(A bird all coloured.)
The wings broke down,
down……down…….
He found courage awaiting in the dawn! ...