Stand on end <br />- - - - - - - - - <br />Blushes on his cheek <br />In breast bears many wounds <br />Through struggles and toils <br />Far away he goes <br />Like a bird where no one knows <br />By cloud or isle <br />But back home with a smile <br />Like a leaf cast off to the flowing tide <br />In a while seen drifting ashore in either side <br />Deep in him sits his fate <br />To mould his fortunes best <br />Thus one day he wandered to a land <br />Quiet unknown to him but a place <br />He thought the right one to live in peace <br />Knowing well he would be facing nemesis <br />But soon he was relentless <br />Finding himself fit to circumstances <br />And the fate building mute countenance <br />People said he could not withstand stormy seas <br />But fortune's favour and God's decree <br />Even sitting still at home <br />No one can escape the doom that fate decrees<br /><br />DEEPAK KUMAR PATTANAYAK<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stand-on-end/
