Youth

a poem by Rajdeep Gupta

The very word youth makes one’s heart yonder
and it’s rapidity becomes faster.

With the sweet memories of childhood reconciled;
comes a spring of youth
It’s freshness can be found in every moment of life,
whether it be our public life or anything else.
Youth brings with it a freshness of hope,
a time to make use of life’s best scope.
Youth is the period
when life’s bold decision are taken;
good or bad should be our decision.
Youth can be compared to a beautiful spring in one’s life;
bringing with him all glories in life.

It is a time to cherish all the beautiful things of life
and time to float in the wings of imagination
It’s time not to sit ideal,
but to use the precious moments of our life.
Youth is a period of making new resolutions and binding by it.
It’s a period of making new relations
and finding solace in it.

However today’s youth are finding it hard to sustain,
they have indulged in all terrorist activities
Their pen being taken over by gun,
their smile seems to get lost somewhere.
Today’s youth seems to be drug-king somewhere
or some criminal elsewhere.
Oh! was it this day that their parents wanted to see.
Our nation needs big and courageous youth who can risk their lives,
This is a poet’s clarion to everybody,
come on youth, for the Nation needs you,
Wake up and behold for your mother calls you.