Sole Pursuit Poem by Praveen Kumar in Celestial Glow

Virgil in Eineid universally declared,
Varium et mutabile semper femina;
How foolish and biased is his verdict,
I realize while I think of your world;
Yet he is great, he's right when he said,
How and why vera incessu patuit dea.

You rose and fell, and caught in wild tides,
Rose to clouds and fell to hell's entrails,
But never an inch yielded from course;
Sunshine when lured to heaven's bright world,
You dipped deep to dark depths of hell
Lest world's tricks trip you from your course.

You thought not a while, thought not a whit,
What is truly must to protect your world;
You threw left and right everything out,
Whatever that threatened your sole pursuit,
Name, fame, future, and treasures of past,
Comforts, glory; and embraced penury worst.

You knew, you never reach your course,
You accepted hurdles, and abandoned goal;
Then why stuck to that course at that cost,
Threw out safe life to pursue that course?
What is that sacred in that course you pursued,
While world teems with worthier than myself?