Resplendent Resilience poem by- Sandhya Misra 12A

Resilience is the trip to the ice cream shop

after losing a basketball game.

Resilience is the unrelenting pursuit of the silver spotlight,

despite having missed your chance at fame.

It is the cuckoo’s quaint nest

not falling off the tree during a harrowing storm.

It is the first fresh breath of winter by the black-capped chickadee

that faced summer’s strafe of warmth.

Time slips fast

as though it is marbles stuck between the ridges of reckless fingers.

Your youth is something that never lingers;

don’t waste it mulling over your losses.

This hailstorm of defeat life hurls your way never pauses.

So, don’t be the Titanic,

which sank miles deep

at the slightest puncture to its side.

Be the iceberg

which collided with such a gargantuan ark

and still made it out alive.

Remember - you are not a vast ship,

bound by pounds and pounds

of iron, steel and magnate.

You are human - held together tenuously

by hollow bones and hollow lungs

and skin that can lacerate.

And as lamentable as that sounds,

if you sink -

you are buoyant enough to rise up to the surface,

and be found.