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 A LOOK AT LIFE-97 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY             BE WITH ME You have seen the world So also I You have travelled a lot Dined and wined  So also I  I matched your steps in every field  Be it in air, water or on earth  People recognise us from a distance  We have nothing to prove  Our success is our trademark  I have so much to share  The same may be with you  Now there is the much-needed leisure  We have been looking forward to since long Let us for a change sit together for a while Share our feelings  And look at each other  The way we used to  When I was your sweet bride And you are my handsome bridegroom  What are you looking at? My eyes, cheeks, neck and skin  Yes I have grown old  So also you We are struggling to keep us young By hiding ourselves in heavy makeup  But our wrinkles tell the real story  Our mirror says we are not the same As we were long b...

 SOMETHING I LOOK AT -73 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY Long since  waiting for something to happen someone to come the pleasure of waiting he knows who waits and i have been waiting for you since the day we met when mind stopped roaming, breath and beats halted for a while and time forever remained standstill Nothing is as pleasing as waiting it keeps me enraptured and enthralled binds me with you and your memory it brings me face to face  with the heaven of my dreams and makes each moment of life so captivating and enduring hardly i get  time to look at me You moved ahead but i am where i was long back in the lap of your memory  having nothing to do with the present i look back where lies my life and its beauty those few  encounters and  the moments i had just enough to see me through the days and years ahead Let there be no end to my waiting i live and breathe in it and drench me with all your colours let me wait for you till eternity wait for something w...

 A LOOK AT LIFE-96 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY   WAITING FOR A BETTER TOMORROW  You are the soldier  You are the general  The battle is yours  So also victory and defeat Means and end The end is to come out of  The unacceptable present  With the coronavirus searching for  Human flesh In  streets and lanes  The end is a better tomorrow  When the fear of coronavirus will be no more  The means is to stay home Reduce your needs to the minimum  Live with whatever available  And never cry for more Forget not Our system has limits If we stretch it beyond  It will collapse  When the system will collapse  We will be nowhere  It is our sacred duty to see that Our system does not come under stress  Let us be with our system Whatever may be the situation  Listen to its voice  For the sake of ourselves, our state,  Country and humanity  We have to stay inside When survival is at stake...

 A LOOK AT LIFE-93 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY     THY WILL IS MY WILL I believe in God  Neither I am afraid of life Nor I am afraid of death  In both, I see the will of my Lord  Neither I see the sun Nor the shower  It is He who is born  It is He who dies It is He who lives Enjoys and endures  He is Krishna He is Arjun, Aswathama  Sakuni and  Duryodhan  He lives in a thousand bodies He is everywhere  In whatever I see and perceive And what lies beyond My vision and perception  It is His game He knows how to play it Why should I worry? Happiness  is His So also the sorrow  Why so much of fear? So much of anxiety? So much of possessiveness? When I am not the doer  The doer is someone else  The drama is His He knows how to enact it  Why should I bother,? When I come close to my  real nature I feel  I am He and He is me The big void, the cosmic consciousness  Neither there is life nor...

 SOMETHING I LOOK AT -68 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY I know you love me i love you too whenever we meet  our eyes dance in joy hearts whisper, lips quiver but i love you we fumble to murmur I reciprocate your love you feel my feelings but our love is not the way it is understood so unique and different let it be where it is in the heart of our hearts where we truly live Never let our love come out very few will understand it very few know what love is all about it will be too much to bear if you go down in the eyes of other i can not see the petals of our love wilting under the scorching heat of sun, pears of shower  and the chill winter playing havoc with all that we jealously treasure Let that bud of love blossom into a beautiful flower with all its fragrance and colour nothing can snatch it away from us, our love, our only possession so dearly conserved in our heart We know and respect each other share our moments of agony and ecstasy we too appreciate the limitations wit...

 A LOOK AT LIFE-91 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY         I REPENT My father! Sometimes I feel  You are not with me You are somewhere else Sometimes I feel You are not my father You are someone else  Is it because You don not love me  The way I love you? Is it because  I ate the forbidden fruit  Deviated from the path? Is it because I acted contrary to your will? Many a time I erred  Many a time I did something Which my conscience never approved  Many a time I repented  Many a time I apologized  But committed the same mistake again and again  Many a time I cried Many a time I indulged in the same game  Knowing well that I am committing a mistake  My father! I have made a complete Mess of my independence  Neither I deserve nor wish to be independent  Don't make me independent again I do not know how to carry myself Get over my instincts and passions  I don't need anything that takes me Miles awa...

 SOMETHING I LOOK AT-110 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY         I AM IN LOVE  to know love i fell in love with you before i could know what love is all about i melted and lost me in you what remained is not i and you but we, a single entity  a single pair of eyes  that sees nothing but you and me largely blind to the world outside  a single heart that never differentiates  i from you and the identification is so complete i feel as if i am you and you are me nothing in between i am your feminine tenderness  you are my masculine virility  i am your flute you are my melodious tune I am the oyster  you are the perl inside i am your eyes you are my vision i am your ears you are the symphony of life i am a physical body you are the consciousness within   a single soul we are that never desires salvation  but thousands of birth on this earth to come here again and again to fall in love and  lose  each other in ...