Pratibha Shrivastava lived an extraordinary life. Through her decades of being an author, playwright, poet, painter, educator and traveler, she developed unique insight into the world and how people relate to each other. In her poems, she examines her experiences with keen intelligence, depth and wisdom and then conveys her insights with an elegance of language. These poems trace a path across her life - delving into highs and lows; from the ordinary to the extraordinary. The poems forged in the fire of memory, imagination, sadness, joy, defeat and victory, call for living a life with self-esteem and for treating each other with compassion.