Learn How to Live

Please stop!! Don’t live a lie

Give your dreams, wings to fly

Stop struggling with your grief

Come, let's learn how to live.

What's gone is gone for good

Move on with life, do not brood

Try not to judge but to forgive

Come, let's learn how to live.

Like the benevolent sun, spread sunshine

Did he ever say, “Sunlight is mine”?

Extend your arms to those in need

Come, let’s learn how to live.

Through life learnt a lesson hard

To follow one’s heart, not only reward

Serve not rule, grant not greed

Mantra of life - live and let live.

Copyright: Shukla Banik

Learn how to fight

(Wish you all a very happy Vijaya Dashami)

Don't live a life of compromise
Break the shackles now and rise
Give your dreams the inner sight
Get up!! Learn how to fight.

Be clear about what you need
Once sure, go all out to achieve
Give your all for the dream to realise
Get up!! Learn how to fight.

Blow like the wind - unhindered, unrestrained
When sky is the limit, why do you abstain
Flow like the river through many lows and highs
Get up!! Learn how to fight.

Learn from the sparrows how to rebuild a nest
So what if it's broken, try again - give it your best
Believe in your strength - try to stand upright
Get up!! Learn how to fight.

Copyright: Shukla Banik

Journey of Life

Journey of life is so strange
End so near yet out of range
Sometime we laugh,
Sometime we cry,
Sometime we get
very easily riled
Only one constant i.e. change
Journey of life is so strange
Many broken promises
Few realised dreams
Million smiling faces
with smothered screams
Each breath is time in-exchange
Journey of life is so strange
Forgotten memories
of treasured moments
Unspoken words
of loving sentiments
Forever in love yet estranged
Journey of life is so strange
Unexplored road ahead
hence treading carefully
In the race of life
shaping own destiny
Seeking an END through the maze
Journey of life is so strange


Copyright: Shukla Banik