Life keeps ripping

With hammer and tongs

Trying to carve

A statue out

You keep loosing

Lots of pieces

And bear the blows

With a stoic mind

Afraid to shout

For life may stop

And leave it’s job

Half undone

And life goes on

Hammering its blows

Till all that remains

Is bits and dust

©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar