| Life is movement it
          isn’t stagnationFor its zeal lies in journey not in destination
 Keep yourself alive and your spirits high
 Don’t give up before you try
 So what if everything has been going dead wrong
 The span of miseries has been awfully long
 For life’s melody often lies in your unheard songs
 Remember it is the tough times that make you strong
 So what if in some ways you are imperfect
 For life is learning it is not a test
 But you must endeavour to be your best
 For life is momentum not rest
 If today you are feeling low
 The reality is harsh to know
 Don’t let the situation remain the same
 It is time for the priorities to be changed
 Everything is tough until you try
 For you need to learn to walk before you dream to fly
 Emotions are meaningless till they are expressed
 Life is terrible only when you feel distressed
 If your life has lost its glory
 Make efforts to start a brand new story
 Don’t just sit and curse fate
 For a new beginning it’s never too late
 Gather the strength
 Determine to persist
 For there’s more to life
 Than to just exist....
 — Nidhi Arora, B.A. I,
        SRCC, Delhi. Cartoons I
love cartoonsBut when I watch them my mother showers me with harpoons.
 Oh! what a bad time I have
 Then, I have to save myself in a little cave.
 But when I come out
 T.V is still out of bounds.
 As the showering of harpoons starts again
 It is boring
 So I feel like howling
 I feel I am in a cage
 And in a rage
 I want cartoons
 Not harpoons.
 — Priyanka Mehtani,
        VIA, Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh.
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