--- title: Battle of Life date: 2012-10-20T08:01:32Z modified: 2012-10-20T08:04:07Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/battle-life/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1304 categories: - Life Poems tags: - Life Poems - battle featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Battle_of_Life.jpg" featured_image_alt: Battle of Life author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2012-10-20T08:04:07Z --- for too many years, i watched as life tossed me here and there, up and down; i told myself, it is all a game, one minute i might seem to be a winner, and the next i might finish as the runner-up;![Battle of Life](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Battle_of_Life.jpg "Battle of Life") spinning, turning, tumbling, tossed up in [air](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/love-is-in-the-air.md), kicked into the ground, it was a bitter fight to take control; take control of [life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/category/life.md), that is meant to be mine, [a life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-life.md) full of happiness and joy, but caught in the middle of a raging war; years of fighting has taken its toll, as i sit and watch [my life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/rain-killed-my-life.md), fight with every tool and nail, a glimmer of [hope](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/do-you-still-have-hope.md) surfaces; a little bundle of joy, kicking and screaming, ready to take its place, as the knight in [shining](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/rise-and-shine.md) armour; strange as it may seem, all that had died and left behind, now rise from the ashes like a phoenix, ready to take the world by storm; a [life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/finding-the-life.md) without a reason, now has a [meaning](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/life-still-has-a-meaning.md), a [battle](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-midnight-battle.md) without a plan, now has a purpose, to live and fight another day! ————————————————— _Written for and after the birth of my son recently;_