My odyssey with faith

Faith acts as a stabilizer

When your fear takes shape of lazer

Ripping apart the soul

Which once rested in peace.

It is like a cool drink

Which when drunk settles all your anxieties

And lightens the way to a brink.

It invites a blissful state within

A state, the glimpse of which

Can be traced in eternally delightful kittens.

It reinforces your bond with life

And you are all set to go miles full of knives.

It eclipses fears in one’s soul

and plants the seeds of self belief,

which enthuses him to make it to the shores,

Alas! Today’s youth lacks in them

In them this perennial fountain

Of calmness and serenity

And thus are imbibing in them enmity

The power of your faith should be greater than your power of fear,

To save your life from becoming a dreadful odyssey of tears.

                                            Saloni Gupta