Know Yourself Poem by PRAVEEN KUMAR English Poems

While you know yourself and know your road,
Why balk in fear of unknown hands?
While clear is sight and inside is bright,
Why look for ghosts of doubts and fate?
Road may fall or rise, turn left or right,
But, you are you, a brilliant glow
And traverse gulfs and cross hills:
Not where you walk, but what you are,
Make you, you, the ultimate you;
Cross-roads do come, you choose your route,
Let not illusions oft mislead you;
Inopinate turns may end-up somewhere
Where you reach the brink of the ultimate end;
But, what makes you, you, saves you from all
If you know yourself and know your road.


Lay your step with sound confidence,
Know where feet fall, how deep it mires;
Knowledge is light that flees all fears,
Knowledge is insight that stills all doubts;
While inside is hale with uncontaminated sight,
No diffractions ever reach and touch confidence;
No rise ever raises, nor fall lets down,
For, you are ever you in unresolved glory;
You may reach hill-tops, end up in dales,
Or lose your path in thick dark wilds
And find in midst of savage beasts,
Or lose your head in nebulous cloud,
Or sink in drains or lose in winds;
While you hold rein and know yourself,
You come through unscathed like glitterand gold.


What all you have, none rob you from;
Trust inside and build on that;
An ocean inside waits to burst outside,
Shut your eyes and listen to the roar,
What depth it has, what breadth and length;
What a treasure hides 'neath the human sheath;
A white-hot sun is burning within
That lights thousand worlds if brought outside;
So rich you are, why feel forlorn?
Rise inside, face outside with resolve,
Live from within, with, without as a game
Of intangible world that surrounds us all,
Where we all live in bits, caught in cosmic wind;
Path is infinite, so is the endless time,
Traverse all the worlds with trust inside.