If I Cannot Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

If I can't bridge hearts walking extra mile,
Let me the least, try walking half a mile,
Let me wait half-way with inviting smile,
Try never getting stranded as if on an isle.

Life is worth living thanks that half a mile,
It is that half a mile that man's still wise;
Imagine, there's in life no compromise—
Life's journey would take many a more mile.

For Nature knows the value of a compromise:
A fierce cyclone when goes out of hand,
It flattens first tall trees too stiff to bend,
Blades of grass, humble, know where wisdom lies.

And Nature asks for no values to compromise,
But to value the voice of compromise;
It teaches some tenets of harmony,
Perish if not, repenting in self agony.

And by not walking up that extra mile,
Nor in compromise walking half a mile,
I know, I've learnt hard lessons late in life,
With brave smile, walking on the edge of knife.
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-Musings | 02.08.10 |