Have Me If You Can! Poem by Mohabeer Beeharry

Once I faced my life
And asked
What is your command.

And life stretching to the other dark end
Replied
There is no command.
You are free

You are a boat
Flow on the crests of my rise and ebb.
In putting your effort to succeed,
Give a thought to potential falls.

You are a bird,
Challenge the blue sky from down below,
Open your heart to this beauteous expanse.
It is yours
No one will stop you.

No one can,
Only yourself,
Spare your wings the singes
Of the sun's darts.

There is fire in you
And there is earth.
There is the boundless ether
Mystical and infinite.

There is air in you
And there is freedom.
Befriend yourself
And the voices you will hear
Will be of wisdom,
The eternal chant of eternity.

Eternity is not a dream
It is a reality,
A perpetual state of being
Of which you are made.

Outside,
The earth is the path
Teach your feet,
Your senses to tread softly
And with wide embrace conquer me.

I am life
I am yours if you can have me.
Failures and success are but thorns and flowers.
Even they die drowned in my depth.

But remember
You will pay for the thorns
You leave behind.
You will reap glory for the fragrant flowers
You spread on others' way.

I am for ever yours
If you can have me.