Karma – By Dr. Ritu Dewan

Like a child

I tried to reach out

For the stars

I got some

I lost some

Why then do I have

A feeling of disquiet?

Fate

A clever businessman

Makes a cruel bargain

With one hand he gives

Abundantly

And with the other

He snatches away.

A constant question

Haunts me

Are things ordained?

Can one really carve out

One’s future?

If success is ordained

Then so is tragedy.

Like a candle melts

Tormenting and burning itself

Yet giving light to others

I melt,

Is it destiny,

Wrong Choices

Or

Karma?

Ritu Dewan 1997