Resolve

How many times do I need

to wear my armour to fight

the unending battles of life’s
phoenix falling to rise again?

How long can I enflame

my desire to live , how long

enforce my weak shoulders

to carry the arms in this

time eaten body and mind?

My growing years have slowed

my pace,my steps infirm,

my  memory unresponsive,

I depend on my family to remind me

I am not sick and lost.

But I can’t sit here to brood,

analyse and ask, although

I am frail bereft of zeal,

I have to fight my battles

long and deep with my love’s

empowering and indomitable will.

I have done my worldly duty

yet I’m not done, I still

have dreams forlorn.Come my love,

my dearest friend hold me tight

and breathe your magic into me

send me again to fight and heal.


Sabita Sahu