Contributed by: Tulip Chowdhury

                               Against the Wind

This pause
between life and death;
we call it Life,
is always a climb uphill.

With a sweating body
tired limbs , beating heart
panting and raving
the mind expecting
thousand things
we climb,
while the wind
touches the body
as if driving it back
to give a message
to whisper a secret
its force trying to hold back
to tell us to hope for less
to be ready to find the top
as bare as the meadow beneath!

Then you just know
the path up the hill
is always a fight against the wind!

Yet the hill top seems to call
to a daunting climb
to see what lies
on its other side
curiosity blends with Life
and you climb on
have to reach the top
the hill not a challenge
to your thirst for knowing!