An Option

An option
 P K Routray

For a man of sixty or so

back in life if he is asked to go

remembering the ills and wells of this life

lived in joy and jubilation, sorrows and strife

with his kith and kin, friends and foes and the known society

in the purity, piety or cobweb of complexity.

Suppose he is pushed back to an age when he is at ten

and is offered to travel back in life afresh again

with an option to travel on the same path he was made to travel

or to travel in a new path with uncertain hardship to battle

where he may miss his dear ones and find aliens threatening around

amidst the worst of the miseries and the sufferings he may be drowned

It is sure that he will prefer the option of life he has lived

To prove that the Almighty does the best on His own, this example is vivid.