--- title: Until the end... date: 2008-04-02T20:35:25Z modified: 2008-04-02T20:35:25Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/until-the-end/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 181 categories: - Life Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-04-02T20:35:25Z tags: - Life Poems --- all alone in this cold rainy morning inside a dark smelly alley i see an old man sleeping away his final days wandering around in this cold rainy morning compass swirling all over my life was put on a pedestal and in one single moment my fall from grace was swift and sudden water, water everywhere yet i was this lost [sailor](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/like-a-valiant-sailor.md) searching for a drink i am in control of a rudderless ship stuck in the middle of this vast windless ocean (of life) trying to sail away to safety like a motorist stuck on a busy highway i am reaching out to all to help me get on this road (life) again on and on and on they come and again and again and again…. all speed past like a bullet out of a gun the [battle](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/battle-life.md) has been lost leaving scars aplenty stuck in the middle of this crazy highway (life) alone, battered and bruised this [war](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/war-within.md) rages on inside me……. i am fighting a war that has no end and no respite a war to stay alive until the end…. ————————————————————————————– _note:_ there are multiple meanings to this poem. how u read it defines the [meaning](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/life-still-has-a-meaning.md) you derive out of it. in some ways, this is inter-related with my other poems.