Another Chance

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Have you ever heard your thoughts

Going back to yesteryears

A place where flocks

All your memories dear 

You Spin and mull those dreams 

Through cobwebs or be clear

Your heart feels half or full

Knowing you are, your own cheer

But if life seems aghast

Eerily veered from path

Knowing promises were not kept

Are going to bear the wrath

Those childhood dreams precious

Life lived abstemious 

Marred by shadows dark

For reasons so facetious

Hey God! now please do listen

And be a real sport

I promise not to be smitten

By wrong path at the fork

Commit hardship or I suffer 

In my mind, there is no doubt

Just give me chance another
Path sunlit or shadowed by cloud

I will, I will do all
In mind I know won't fall
Promises will keep me tall
Not mind lifespan be small
Balancing soul with pride
Learning life's lessons, contrite
Promises I want to keep
Be burden heavy or light

Manjari

My Success

Being mother's child, with temperament mild

A wife content with rules to bend

A sister, who my sister wished 

Being mother of two, time just vanish

I love to plant and tend garden

No work to me, is really spartan

Don't think I know just how to rest

Unending list, being second to none

I have been told, again and again

focus, spruce up the list and tame

Unruly creative forces of waves

riding many boats in deep ocean

In this little time that God has given

Spent partly in childhood's playpen

Life may end like a flash on stage

curtain may fall or stage give in

I want to do whatever I can

Anything that makes heart sing again

could be working hard in sweat to toil

or watching the clouds, sitting pretty as dame

I want no list I must conquer

Things happen in life just as they occur

A hundred things I want to do

be it going to heights or just for succor

Fastening my life with couple of goals

my life's destination is not with shoal

I chart my route, do as I please

Dropping lots of pins with just one ball

Success to me is kind of weird

Not going up ladder highly tiered

I am as adept as a pretty starfish

To go which way I wish to steer

Believe me it makes me happy as clam

Doing so many things and so little plan

Executing it all and not just few

That's how my existence gains its glam

Doing endless chores every opportunity 

Confused it may seem, unresolutely

It's not just what brings gains to fruition

But also the intent and intensity

Bringing joy to all, natural and living

It's not just one but many things

When I look back at this existence 

Success to me, is a life well lived !

Manjari

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