The pleasure in pain

As life grabs you by the throat

Choking you as and when there is an ego bloat

Thrusting pain vehemently on your soul

Beating you down from pole to pole

Life is as tough as sailing on a sinking boat

Life tries to drown you as you try to stay afloat

Crippled, paralysed, yet moving on

Looking for greener pastures and forgetting the old burnt lawn

Life is after all nothing but a painful journey

That offers quiet among the crowd’s cacophony

And amidst all, you sit and ponder

Is life worth the pain or is death better yonder?

But then you pick up the shards of your broken heart

From the sad lands of self-pity you vow to depart

And all through this pain, you gain experience

In all the timidity some confidence you begin to sense

Philosophy starts oozing from every pore

You start realizing the impact of pain instead of feeling sore

Like wine, the years shall help you bloom

Glory days shall one day replace your gloom

That is when you realise the pleasure in this pain

You wouldn’t have risen if you hadn’t been slain

The success in your palms would make no sense

If you didn’t have to break barriers and cross the fence

Ultimately you embrace the bitter truth of mankind

Life is a pleasurable pain which is one of its kind

Death may give you a moment’s solace

But beyond the unknown do we know if in death there’s grace?

So yes, there shall be philosophy, pain and experience and pride

Take this and life’s pleasurable pain all in your stride

Learn over time that life is nothing but a journey of pleasurable pain

Without the downs and the blows there can never be any gain!

SURVIVOR

They try to break you every day

Try to burn you every possible way

In your life, they try to thrust their own say

Don’t you crumble, ‘cos you’re a SURVIVOR

Jealous haters bog you down

For all your works all they'll offer is a frown

They’ll try to reduce you to a house clown

But don’t you fumble, for you’re a SURVIVOR

Every step of the journey you’ll get hurt

Everyday you have to face the dirt

In the coach of success, you’ve got to snatch your own berth

Don’t you let fear take over ever, as you’re a SURVIVOR

Fear of failure shall get loud

Close ones shall advice you to stick to the crowd

But you know you’re going to make everybody proud

For you’ll persevere your talents, as you’re sure you’re a SURVIVOR

Sorrow shall keep embracing you

Life shall hit you black and blue

At those times to yourself, you’ve got to stay true

As you’re not a loser, but a SURVIVOR!

Don't be a disgrace to fame

 

Yes he was an egoist

Arrogant of his fame

Loved being so narcissistic

Loved hearing his name

He forgot that time

When he was in pain

Broke without a dime

And when life had him slain

Success had blurred his vision

Made him weak

Forgetting how painfully he had risen

Those memories seamed bleak

Destiny was watching all

Destiny wasn’t going to sit tight

Waiting for him to take the first fall

 Then he would witness destiny’s might

Very few get to the top

The top is coveted and has to be respected

Once there, you can’t let the chance drop

Or else life will leave you yet again dejected

So here he was, a disgrace

Vain, pompous and evil

Slackening, lowering his pace

Sliding down the hill

Don’t be such a disgrace ever

Learn to respect your power

Be humble yet smart and clever

In murky shores learn to bloom like a lotus flower