Two Poems

They give me the strength today... and always...
dad is no more today, but words support me- never cry, face the situation; try to find solutions, be brave always, you are my daughter!! My parents, granny and their lives taught me many valuable lessons! Those lessons are summarized in these two poems...

If You Can.....
Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head, when all about you
are losing theirs, and blaming it on you!
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
and make allowance for their doubting too.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet, don't look too good, nor talk too wise!

If you can bear to hear, the truth you've spoken,
twisted by naives to make a trap for fools,
Or watch things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop to build'em up with warnout tools...

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtues,
Or walk with kings- nor lose the common touch..
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much...

If you can fill The unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds, worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And which is more- you'll be a Man my son!


Unfortunately I do not have English translation of this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore!!

Vipatti madhye tu maza rakshan kar
Hi mazi prarthana nahi.
Vipatti madhye mee bhaybhit hou naye
itki ch mazi ichcha.

Dukkha tapane vyathit zalelya mazya mana cha
Tu santvan karavas
ashi mazi apeksha nahi.
Dukkha var jay milavata yava, itki ch mazi ichcha.

Mazya madatila koni n alyas,
Maze bal modun padu naye, itki ch ichcha.

Maze rakshan tu karaves, mala taraves,
hi mazi prarthana nahi.
tarun janyache samarthya mazyat asave,
itki ch mazi ichcha.

Maze oze halke karun tu maze santvan kele nahis tari mazi takrar nahi
te oze vahayachi shakti mazyat asavi
itki ch mazi ichcha.

Sukha chya diwasat nat mastak houn
mee tuza chehera olkhun kadheen.
Dukkha chya ratri,
sare jag jevha mazi fasavnuk karel,
tevha tuzya vishayi mazya manat shanka nirman hou naye
itki ch mazi ichcha!

Yes, I still live on poems and books :-)
In this foreign country, with possiblility of major loss in mind- all alone, I gather all my hope and determination and live on poems and books... :-)