Where are we heading with this crazy run? <br />To a new world or an imminent end? <br />Or is this an endless run for the running's sake? <br />No signboards anywhere <br />For speeds, turns and distance ahead, <br />Nor anybody knows the starling-line <br />From where it all once began. <br /> <br />Twilight spreads on the path of the run <br />And passionate colours lit the sky, <br />Long shadows fall ahead of the run; <br />Is this dawn or dusk, none of us know; <br />Hollow within, breaks to loud clamours, <br />Dust and sweat sit on tired faces, <br />No lights within, <br />This is an impatient blind run. <br /> <br />Miles and miles we cover a day <br />And leave behind long-winding roads; <br />Is this labour worth our sweat, <br />Does this take us anywhere at all? <br />Directions are uncertain, destination, uncertain, <br />Of terminal confusion. <br /> <br />Does this run take back or forth, <br />Or keep in mad rounds around the self, <br />Or mark-time on a constant spot? <br />Endless run weathers freshness, <br />Cracks endurance and tires sprite; <br />Miles of roads do wait us ahead, <br />But, does this run take us anywhere? <br />Is this evolution's natural cradle? <br />Do the cracks in our tired souls <br />Show sudden jumps in the evolution's scale? <br /> <br />None have an answer, none know an answer, <br />Nor we need to know the celestial secret, <br />Nor it concerns us for ages to come; <br />But, we must run, run like all, <br />As condemned to run from birth to death <br />As the sports of the grand universal scheme <br />Which always does what always is right; <br />Let us run as we must, <br />With lights within and eyes open <br />And ears held close to hearts <br />And souls intact; <br />Only then we win the evolution's race.<br /><br />Jayashree P 3<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/where-are-we-heading-2/
