Thunderbolts Poem by PRAVEEN KUMAR English Poems

Have your heart built of wrought-iron
And mind of thick reinforced steel
To bear onslaughts of the crazy world;
Have nerves of steel and quartz backbone
To stay in shape, unfazed as ever
While take on beatings of the wanton world;
Have nuts and bolts hold tight your will
Lest ruthless assaults loosen your plans;
Have shock-proof skin protect your self
To stonewall endless mad pundings;
Draw your eyes from far horizons
To fix on short joys lie on hands,
Bind your holdings to bare minimun load
And patiently take tides with concrete confidence;
Harden resolves and stiffen body frame
Lest cracks surface at all soft spots
That gape to consume and gorge you a day.

Each strike sends shocks like thunderbolts,
Each tears root like vice of painful spikes.

Raps fall like blazing death from dark sky
And shatters and scatters whatever you have
And set afire your soul with black smoke;
Wrought x-irons melts, steel bends,
Quartz cracks to tiddy wrecks;
Yet, you must take and withstand knocks
Like gaint black rock atop tall hill,
That weathers all strokes of heat and cold
In precious, cold indifference;
Stiff strafes oft hit most vital joints
And crumble all worlds with precision bombings,
But for the strength inside to live up
And the will like diamond to fight till end.

This makes life a celestial game
Above mortal nodes and temporal tides;
This makes life a divine scheme
Beyond cold plans and human deeds.

No raids breach nor assaults collapse
The forts of will built round your Self,
No winds move, no oceans extinguish
The flames within to survive in odds;
Like phoenix, you rise from grey ruins,
Every time, some ill forces you down;
Like wound-spring, you resile
Every time, some force hits you to break,
While fuel within blows in full steam,
While full life-force kicks the Being;
Then, knocks just reach, strafes just scratch
Which raise you to touch the highest reach
Of the steely world of courage, confidence
Where quartz-backbone never bends,
Where wrought-iron heart and steely mind
Never yield to concerted attacks,
Where nuts and bolts hold will tight forever
‘Neath concrete shelters of contemn for crazy world.

Build a sandy wall of indifference
To playful onslaughts round your Self,
Where, no missiles ever penetrate to harm
And falls like spent hapless wreck.

Have your self clear like crystals
Where fires and strengths are visible from within;
Have roads open and sight straight
And stop the lures of fogged crossroads;
A walk on known path in resolute stride
Takes you far, where you should reach.