Not a Prince but a Man with his nights and Half his Days

“The day when you’ve grown up,
a woman from a bud,
we’ll marry thee a prince”
the mother said like a stud.

“What if I don’t want one?”
The daughter asked now lost.
“Want thee the king,
now that’s an ambitious thought.”

“What if I love the Court Jester,
a smart, a wit, a funny,
and he love me back
with a hat that hides a bunny?”
“Then you’ll be mercy to a ruler,
in a home in winters chilled
and the day he be offended,
he’ll have your husband killed,
and your sons shall mourn for one,
and forget the loss on four,
by ten they’ll be angry,
and ask “mother, could you have married more”.

“And if I marry a king,
and I be the queen,
and I be one in hundred,
rarely on Tuesdays seen.
The king shall have no time,
and all I’ll have is gold,
and when the king be dead in battle,
I with it will be sold.
Consider the tales oh mother,
the queens are always the worst;
they have all gold and maids,
but for love it surely hurts.
I do not carve the gold
which equals me in my weights,
but all I’ll have is the person,
and his nights and half his days.”

– Saransh Gupta (Words of Wonder)

Yesterday my sister and I were in a pretty bad car accident. Luckily both of us were wearing our seat belts and didn’t have any major injuries. My sister is and always has been Mrs. Popular – she knows everyone. I’m the complete opposite – an introvert who hangs out with the same two girls all the time. My sister immediately posted a comment on Facebook and Instagram about our accident. And while all her friends were commenting, my two friends showed up independently at the scene of the accident before the ambulance arrived.
– Source: Quora

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
– William Shakespeare

I did not die

Do not stand there, do not weep;
Even if I’m dead, I will not sleep.
I came to love and died in peace.
I was born to live and not to grieve.
I live not in the coffin, nor in the seas.
They might have burned me but I have fields to reap.
I shall live in your thoughts and rest in your souls,
and never really vanish until I have my goals.
If they burned me today, I’ll move in the airs,
and the day I must work, I’ll come down as flares.
So do not stand there, do not cry.
I am not there, I did not die.

– Saransh Gupta (Words of Wonder)

Painting : Konstantin Youn, First Appearance of Lenin at a meeting in Smolny, the Petrograd Soviet on Oct.25, 1917,

Vikalp Joshi writes on “Love”

The Three Mentors

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Painting : Christ in the house of his parents.

Saransh Gupta writes on “Moon”.

Fundamentals..

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
– Helen Keller

What is life all about?

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

Sketch by Shiksha Jaiswal

Dreams and Fears