In the road of this life**

In the road of this life, the search for identity.
In this deep ocean of tears, the search for tranquility.
At all costs with all the pains, at all times and within all the chains.
Facing the ups and facing the downs, wanting to blow up but having to calm down.
In all these efforts to survive, the strive for victory.
And still having the desire to create my own history.

Albeit for a moment, ‘a’ shadow came along.
Who taught me the lessons and made me belong.
As the darkness kissed the shadow, it ceased to appear.
Fizzled away in the crowd far from being near.
On its way out I could faintly hear, it was singing a mystery song.
The song was about sadness ‘nd how it’s always there.
The song was about happiness ‘nd how it’s never there.

In the road of this life, some strangers will keep coming.
In their strange ways those strangers would become your heartbeat and happening.
But when that beat becomes a stranger ‘nd everything comes to a halt.
This realization would slowly come in ‘nd hit you like a bolt.
Whatever we say and whatever we do, whatever happens and whatever we go through.
At the end of that road it all comes back on you.
At the end of that road it’s the end and it’s you.

**Adapted from the Hindi original 'Zindagi ki raah mey' by me