The Light of my Life (poem)

The Light of my Life   (poem)         

ALSHAYAN, CHETLAT

I

The Holy Book says

Day and night do comes

Light and darkness too appears

Everyone’s life is like that

Mine is not different.

II

The inmates of earth we are

Father and mother tasted

The bitter fruit from the Heaven

Eden discharged them out

God’s forgiveness soothed them

III

And we, the children of Adam and Eve

Do mistakes ourselves

Forgive us Lord for our sin

Lead us to thy Divine world

Never let us think of the past deeds

IV

The Light of my life begins from childhood

The care of my mother

She does whatever she can

With her little knowledge

She enrolled us to the vast universe.

The light of my life then

Was the school of little native land

Then my life shifted to

The crescent shaped island

Where I found my life for future.

V

The light of my life is

Derived from the old people

Residing in my island

Some from my colleagues, well-wishers

And from my Great teachers.....

Who often lend me pieces of knowledge.

VI

Thus the light led me

To thy light my Lord

Now I am near to you

Submitting myself

To thy path of Goodness

Never then let me go away.

VII

The Holy Book of Yours says

“Verily with every difficulty

There is relief”

And the former first person of our Nation

Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Who I adore most, says

“God has not promised skies always blue;

Flower-strewn pathways. All our life through;

God has not promised sun without rain

Joy without sorrow, peace without pain”.