JUST DO IT

When you know you can’t win,

Then why play?

When you know that you cannot survive,

Then why stay?

When you know that you’re against all odds,

Then why be in the fray?

When you know your very existence is under threat,

Then why pray?

So,

Don’t just play, Fight, till your opponents have knelt,

Don’t just stay, Live, to make your presence felt,

Don’t give up till your last breath, come what may,

and Help, as hands that help

are holier than the lips that pray......

-shrinidhi kalwad

08.10.09

THE BRIGHTER SIDE

I cursed the power cut, which left us dark in the night,

He said, let us take this opportunity to savour the moonlight.

I complained, when it started to rain,about getting drenched,

He asked me to think about the million plants, their thirst getting quenched.

The street paintings, I said, were waste of money, though they were good,

He reminded me that the painting got the artist a day’s food.

I sometimes saw a glass half full, or just a quarter,

He didn’t try seeing anything, he just filled the glass with water

-shrinidhi kalwad

13.11.09