One Step Forward

There is so much to give
and so much to live
here in this world itself,
but the wheel of time
keeps moving at its own pace,
in the two hemispheres
of known and unknown,
of feasible and unfeasible,
it keeps pushing us
to take one step forward
then the next
and then the next to next…

But lethargic inadequacy
may put some naysayers
in the slumber of constraints
contemplating various templates
to find some excuses
not to get awakened,
but find themselves pushed
a step backward,
and the irony of life
continues to prevail…

But there are those who love
to ramble through the lanes
of probabilities and opportunities,
as they tend to wish
what is not easy to get,
they come with their destiny,
but go with their own karmas,
they make a beginning
by taking one step forward,
the beginning provides an end
that in turn gives an opportunity
to make one more beginning
here in this life and in this world,
for rebirth is too uncertain…

–Kaushal Kishore