If you are destined to live long
None can ever destroy your song;
No amount of refuge or subterfuge
Can escape destined death or deluge!
No catalyst, honey bee or poetry
Can kindle a love not meant to be!
If you are destined to beg and thrive,
That privilege none can you deprive!
Affluent or impoverished state,
Our fate, destiny does dictate!
Yes, Destiny - she governs us resolute,
Reckon this simple truth, absolute!

Rajeshwari Iyer lives in Brampton, Ontario and teaches Chemistry at the College/University level in Toronto. She is the mother of a special needs child and enjoys reading, music and travel. She has contributed poems to SAWF (South Asian Women's Forum), Magazines such as KALA, Marina, quarterly publications based in Toronto. She has also contributed to e-zines such as Poetry.com, Thinnai, and Tamilonline.