🌷Let's Keep Going...
Poetess: Tilottama Vijay Lele
 
Life's journey is full of ups n downs...
In a day we see both smiles n frowns...

Der R times when we realise
How smaller things, we can utilise...

Often smallest wings carry us farther
Than d strongest legs can take us there

We need to keep moving…
Even when sky is too vast n frightening

Life doesn’t ask us to be stronger
Than d challenges that we face forever

Overcoming adversity is nothing more
Than finding out courage as a saviour 

N take just one more step forward
When fear is ready to make us coward

Resilience isn't always an act of bravery
It's a refusal to stop looking actively

It never asks to be fearless, invincible
Or capable of fighting all d trouble

All it asks is that we take d next step
Just one. Not two, three or many steps

Even when we can't see when road-ends
We imagine courage as being fearless

A fearless heart, an unshaking voice,
N certainty that we will win at any price

Perhaps courage is so different than that.
It’s like facing n fighting d fear of fate

We do carry a small amount of hope
Although there's hardly any scope…

A tiny Ray Of Hope is truly something
But we do underestimate small things.

A small step, a prayer or a decision
To begin our journey back, in turn

A tiny Birdie’s wing beating against d sky
D sky looking too vast n far far away...

But Der's a tiny Li'l difference in this
Distance isn’t to be crossed in One leap

Birdies do not negotiate with d sky
They decide to accept d challenge n fly

They simply open their wings
N trust d air enough to rise in d skies

Guess we need to learn that from them
We don't need to know d entire way

We only need to gather enough courage
To start n use d visible pathways

D path will go on revealing later by itself
It'll appear only after first walking ahead

N often what looks like a dead end
It's simply life asking us to look again

Becuz fear convinced us
That Der's nowhere else to go.

Der is almost always another way.
But surely not always an easy way.

Not always d way we imagined.
But definitely a way, well defined

N that should be good enough.
For us to keep going by being tough

So let's keep going becuz fear isn’t a map
Der's a way waiting to be found in our lap

Often way does't appear before we begin.
It'll appear if we refuse to stop walking

Steps will get harder but we won't stop,
D views will be awesome at d top...

We don’t need to know d whole story
Path will be visible if we keep going...

🌷@Tilottama Vijay Lele
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