When grief cries out in pain
And breaches the threshold
When trauma torments ceaselessly
And desperation sets the tone

When solace and sympathy
Aggravates your state
When misfortune and misery
Come in a spate

It is time to look inwards
Time to turn a leaf
Time to treat your agony
As chaff to wheat

Your body and mind
Is not the you or your threshold
What you are, lies much deeper
In the fabric of your soul

Where peace and tranquility
Reign perennially supreme
Where trials and tribulations
Are ripples to a stream

Where hardship and adversity
Are welcome guests
Helping you to evolve
And turn in your best

Subir Chakraborty / 23rd Feb 2018