Read: Nancy Rustagi's Poem 'Life Is A Small Box'

    • Nancy Rustagi
    • Publish Date: Sep 1 2016 1:26PM
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    • Updated Date: Sep 1 2016 1:45PM
Read: Nancy Rustagi's Poem 'Life Is A Small Box'

 Life is a small box
With some pencils and an eraser
Each has a role play
But nothing lasts forever

The box opens and the life begins
Its ride on a roller-coaster
Is like those sharp and not so-so-sharp pencils
One pencil is a snake, the other is a ladder

We sharpen a pencil
We sharpen another
And so on we go on
Until they're just over

Some pencils turn out to be smooth
Like all those glib roads we walked on
Like those superb days with nothing to worry about
Like those giggles which will never corrode

They are like our achievements
Like those best things we did for others
We just wish to write with them as much as we can
But one day, the disappear

Another pencil then we pick
The moment we sharpen it, it breaks
'Oh crap!' is what we say
Hell of our lives. That what it makes

They're like those rebukes
Like the immortal darkness of our lives
Like all those cruelties we suffered
Like that one doom which made us cry 

They remind us of those days
When we laid alone. Completely alone
In our beds shedding tears
As if the world was not our home

The deteriorated pencils are like our faults
And one of them is like our hamartia
Due to which we couldn't pen
Our stories of happiness and nostalgia

But the eraser in the box
Possesses the extreme power
For it represents those urbane people in our lives
Who gave us a second chance

 
And one day, the box lies empty
We utter, 'oh no!'
To buy another box we rush
'Alas!' the shop is closed
 
We try. We try
But it's too late
Our life ends
Leaving impressions; Oh! so great.
 

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NAVYA MALHOTRA SWARAJ INDIA PUBLIC SCHOOL

beautiful poem about life

Amish Agarwal Goldcrest High Vashi

It''s a good Psalm. Keep it up.

Smriti R P VENKAT INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL

A meaningful poem on life.NICE.

Hansika bhardwaj PRESENTATION CONVENT(RED FORT)

Wonderful work done by you

Pragati Gupta Shaheed Rajpal DAV Public School

wonderful and nice......ur poem is saying a lot in a simple and sober way...... keep up the spirit!!!!

Pragati Gupta Shaheed Rajpal DAV Public School

wonderful and nice......ur poem is saying a lot in a simple and sober way...... keep up the spirit!!!!

Pragati Gupta Shaheed Rajpal DAV Public School

very nice poem

Pragati Gupta Shaheed Rajpal DAV Public School

superb

S.VIDHYAALAKSHMI SHREE NIKETAN MAT -

Thought provoking poem about life .keep it up Nancy!

Brenda Marshal PADUA HIGH SCHOOL-MANKHURD

Wow it''s really a meaningful poem. Your true LIVE IS A SMALL BOX !!!!!

A.Nivaditha AMALORPAVAM HR S S

Wow!Your poem is awesome.It tells us the way of life . SUPER

V.Aditya Pon Vidyashram - Valasaravakkam

A wonderful & beautiful poem . Please continue to write amazing poems like this .

OM GUPTA Jesus Mary Joseph Senior Secondary School

STRESS The Stress from Today Travels with me again tomorrow When you know you are in a mess Recognise that it is Stress. Nothing to be done Just open the door and run and once it''s over nothing is left But just the mishappens remain.

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