I control my thoughts
I control my actions
I control my words
I control my reactions
I am responsible for my joy
I am responsible for my sorrow
I must not look up to you for my happiness
And I must not wait for tomorrow
My life is my book
You may take a look
But only I am allowed to be its author
You cannot write my story for me
For you are just a character
Belonging to a single chapter
People or things don't run me
I must run the things around me
And for that I must set my spirit free
I must learn to conserve my internal energy
And not let people or things reduce me
And I must make sure
That my hand never happens to shake
While writing my own story
For I was never created to be defeated or weak
And as I write
I decorate each page
For there is only one life
My standards and principles
Must define and increase its worth
So that it becomes so beautiful
That I would want to live it again
And so that my book becomes
Such a unique and historic piece of literature
That nobody else can write it again.
Copyright © Upasana Goyal 2015
