PARADISE

The World is not enough

for this free-willed child of yours;

He searches for what cannot be found here,

A  Loving Soul, A Warm Embrace.

He wanders about looking for Water

Alas, he knows not, only elixir can quench his thirst

In this realm, he looks for The One,

The One who sees with equal eyes,

The One who sees no difference between

a hero vanquished and a fallen sparrow.

He seeks a place where exists not hunger,

nor a single drop is shed,

where one does not kill to survive,

where there is no single ruler,

but everyone has their throne.

Your child is baffled by this paradoxical enigma-

If you created this world, why cannot he find you in it?

He is now beyond the world and the worldly,

He introspects and finds You Within.

He Says," Take me, take me, take me away

                 Take me to my home for I am lost

                 Take me to Paradise."

Hope

Hope blesses the eager drops of the river
With the boon that they'll meet the sea
And motivates the caged bird to live
So that one day he'll be free.

Hope gets the empty, naked Tree
To stand the cold winds of winter
Hope gets the Sun to set at night
So He could rise again even brighter.

Hope steers the soul of the impoverished man
From childhood through youth to the waning age
Hope inspires the most troubled of poets
To start anew on a brand new page.

With Hope the salmon fights the river
To see her young ones grow
While teaching us all along
To never let Hope run low.

∞ INFINITE ∞

Short and sweet, yet long and beat

Incandescent yet evanescent

This my friends, is THE paradox

that has wise ones grappling with their locks

Every night, we sit and yawn

at what may be, the price of dawn.

We think only, of our lives finite

but reconsider, is it right?

Time gleefully passes

as the benefits we reap,

But remember this, O friend!

The greedy will always weep.

The abundant infinity

may one bemuse,

Yet the infinitesimal time we have

won't ever cease to amuse.

Better live NOT knowing

which moment be your last.

ALIVE to the infinite mystery of it all,

you might enjoy LIFE at last!

Future Career

          At the age of 15, you have to decide what you want to become. Or at least what stream you want to go to. What if you want to change to the decision you made at 15 ? 15 years may seem like a long time to decide, but is not. Should I go in Medical ? Or perhaps Commerce ? Maybe Engineering ? Sometimes, people instinctively know what they are good at. But most of the times... people wonder.... I am good at this...but I am also good at this..It consumes the mind and haves ill-effects on the child's mind. A inferiority complex develops. Others have already chosen. Why can't I ? They have laid a definite path for their future. Why can't I ? Another reason for this confusion is pressure from other people. Legacy from parents, expectations from relatives and friendship from friends. Some people don't like to live up to expectations. They believe that "Right Now" is just a phase to pass through.
            These decisions of career and life should be prolonged till at least 18 years old, when he is no longer a child but an independent adult. So later in life, the concerned person can forgo the question, " I have a Medical degree, But I feel I would have done better in Commerce." Or any other field concerned.