The Hope

The Hope-

I have promised, I have designed, I have striven and endeavored,
To the persistent purpose I have added the title.
The best that was in me I've given, at least according to me,
I have implored, but the gods would not heed.
I have defied and reached only catastrophe,
I have lost many things, fell many times.
Then i learnt to stand up after every fall
I have combated and broken my lance,
I am bruised by a ruthless master
That the weak and the timid call Chance.
Now I am old, I am bent, I am betrayed
Of all that Youth cheered me to win;
But dare not to name me with the defeated,
For tomorrow - again, I begin. --Aditya