Once with you the fortune,

Hardship disappears, but when shun away;

One starts humming the sorrow tune,

From problems he starts to run away.

If a captain of a warship;

Prepares only the day before;

Merely with some  meaningless of worship;

To make him live eight days instead of four.

You be the one fighting for your aim,

Ignoring the thought of resting in the grave;

You’ll escape the checkpoint in life’s game,

Because fortune favors the brave.

Fortune being really clever,

Is devil, for one who is it’s weight;

If one works hard forever,

It makes one’s curved path straight.

~Palanetra Hebbar

Banglore, India