Vision: 3 Poem by Praveen Kumar in Celestial Glow

Drift me afar
From worldly ties
Those lead in leash
To irretrievable gulf
Of pain and grief
To those I care,
And ruin them.

Have me close
To values within,
The life I cherish,
To visions inspire
To run to reach,
Those make me, me
And give me peace.

Hurt me grievously
Till I awake
While slink to sloth
Amid aplenty around
And forgo my path
Of adding mite
To treasures of world.

Get me wherever
I truly befit
And turn-out best
Happiness around,
Where what I have
Meet crying needs
Of the fulfillment.

Wind me with
Hunger for truth,
With inquisitiveness
To know the world,
Its inner layers,
So ever I unwind
For knowledge’s treasures.

Grab me within
To love’s realms,
Where binds love
All fellow beings
And animals alike
To single network
Of concern, kindness.

Take me kindly
Along sufferings,
Pains and grief,
Without let down
To total darkness,
So I reach across
On own gifts.

Sweep me roughshod
Up and down
On life’s tides
To toughen myself
For all seasons
And withstand vagaries
The life offers.

Deviate me not
From the love of life,
That fount of joy
That invests confidence
In all hurdles
To walk abreast
To reach across.

Alert me always
When I go wrong
Or slip on path,
Hold my hand
And guide me ahead,
I assure, I never
Intend to do wrong.