What Have I Given To This Life, What Has It To Me, Think I? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Sometimes think I what has this life to me
And what have I to it,
I assess and evaluate it
When sit I leisurely
Brooding over?

What does society expect from me
And what do I from it,
Man and his society,
What had I to do,
What did I not?

What the works done and shouldered forth
For the nation and society,
What should I have for my family
Which but did I not,
What remaining undone?

I reckon and think pondering over
What I ought to have
For the nation and this society of man,
What did I,
What did I not?

The passage of time has led to this reckoning,
What ought to have been,
What I should not have,
What my responsibility for my family undone,
What the duty to be for the nation?

Now think I lapsing into a reckoning
As for the responsibility and duty
Shouldered or shouldered not,
Carried or not,
But the reckoning not complete.