Game of Football

Oh how like a game of football

Is this life of ours as we rise and fall!

Kicked about, tossed and twirled

Life throws it’s challenges as it unfurls.

Players passions run high with yelling and excitement,

The onlookers watch on with anxiety and merriment.

Kicked high the ball soars above all,

Looking down on the crowd before it falls.

When it hits the net it is a Goal!

Much jubilation as stories yet untold

Are being made as the game unfolds.

The ball rebounds and again hits a sole!

The game goes on with outcome unknown.

Harried and tossed the ball it’s fate bemoans.

Now it crosses the boundary, A penalty is declared!

Oh some more kicking about, to see how a team fared.

The flurry and madness as the game continues

All to read some score board news.

Some rules are followed and some they flout,

All till the adrenaline rush wears out!

The wearied football now waits for the end.

To catch it’s breath it needs some quiet time to spend.

Does the Lord above watch this game on earth with the same passion

As we go through the motions mostly lacking compassion?

To what purpose do we play this game?

Only for temporary fortune and fame!

For soon the game will end and it will be time to rest,

To recoup and recover before we are tossed about a fresh!

Oh dear Lord when it’s time for the end

May I look back and say, “It was time well spent”

“It was time well spent”

उर्वशी टंडन