Endurance Poem by Gautam Sen

I consume the venom of life every time,
Expectation of getting some sweet nectar
Being produced always from these spites sublime,
Humbly helps me to lead my life to glitter.

Better I should think not to retaliate
Rather controlling my angers, if I can –
So like this I find very easy to slake
My mind with splendor of a peaceful lifespan.

I know such a steady journey just to tread
Is not a very smooth and simple task,
painful thorns that pinch the soft roses outspread
yet it’s taken as charm of a fragrant mask.

“It’s better to devour and not to escape –
Facing the music is the rule of the game'
I follow it in my life as a major step
For earning peace of mind, if not name or fame.

In my life, adversities I've seen so far,
All are withstood like the great power of sun –
While caged behind clouds, not making any spar,
It Ignores all evils as passing out fun.

Wishing now to consolidate inside me
On rumblings that hurled over in my life,
Believing in strength of a roaring sea
I roll ov’r my journey forgetting all its strife.