Life Lived Fullest Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

If only life dares us new heights to scale,
For joys to jive in— each like a conquest
Of unknown crests as if Mt Everest,
That, life like a kite free from strings would sail.

Where's thrill in a risk-starved scare-less soft ride?
Where's joy in scaling a tamed li'le hillock?
In a high sea drama rehearsed on dock,
Nor yet romance there's in a bargained bride.

Comes a seafarer's thrill in risking life,
Greeting challenges as were a tame bull,
Only but he lives life packed brimming full,
Hanging on hardy he sails stormy strife.

And one that watches in fear his life breath,
Hardly lives, and dies a measly mean death.
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Time comes when man reflects on the life lived way back in the past, and wonders what if he had lived it another way. Man tends to secure a cocooned life made safer and sure, devoid of risk and rough ride after initially opting for challenges. Yet again he's left thinking about the rare joys of life missed out—if only ‘I had taken that road less trodden'!
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Sonnets | 01.01.08 |