@Life

When there is no friend,
When life is on the dead end,
When world is not a paradise,
When your confidence dies,
Tell yourself - Go on, THIS IS LIFE!

When things don't go right,
When there is no ray of light,
And it's too hard to survive,
Tell yourself - Go on, THIS IS LIFE!

When there is competition to face,
When you are lagging behind in the race,
When you've lost faith in God,
When you're betrayed by a fraud,
Tell yourself - Go on, THIS IS LIFE!

When others don't respect you,
When you're not amongst the admirable few,
When for a question, you can't find a solution,
When all you're sure about, is confusion,
Tell yourself - Go on, THIS IS LIFE!

When your destination is miles apart,
When you don't know where to start,
When all you see around is pain,
When your hard work is in vain,
Tell yourself - Go on, THIS IS LIFE!

Even though all this happens
Just have faith in self & face the life
With smile,
Things will surely change one day
Because as said "THIS IS LIFE ...

To a Child embracing his Mother!

Love thy mother, little one! --
Kiss and clasp her neck again, --
Hereafter she may have a son
Will kiss and clasp her neck in vain.
Love thy mother, little one!

Gaze upon her living eyes,
And mirror back her love for thee, --
Hereafter thou mayst shudder sighs
To meet them when they cannot see.
Gaze upon her living eyes!

Press her lips the while they glow
With love that they have often told, --
Hereafter thou mayst press in woe,
And kiss them till thine own are cold.
Press her lips the while they glow!

O, revere her raven hair!
Although it be not silver-gray;
Too early death, led on by care,
May snatch save one dear lock away.
O! revere her raven hair!

Pray for her at eve and morn,
That heaven may long the stroke defer, --
For thou mrnayst live the hour forlorn
When thou wilt ask to die with her.
Pray for her at eve and morn!

- Thomas Hood