SOMETHING I LOOK AT-3

 SOMETHING I LOOK AT-3

BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY 

Something we relish 

I search for it

in the lost paradise,

in the solitary confinement of Taj

in the tears of Sahajahan,

and in all 

that is beautiful and scintillating.

I search for it

in meadows and mountains,

in poverty and affluence,

in hope and despair

It eludes my grasp.

It is a feeling,

a feeling of completeness,

one has after being

completely becoming one's

forgetting the world around at once

A glimpse of it,

one can have

after emptying oneself,

when every beat of the heart

throbs for it,

every drop of blood

flows for it.

For the sake of it,

one can live and die.

It is so fulfilling and enriching,

makes life a paradise on earth

To have it,

one has to have

a pair of eyes

that only sees it,

a loving heart

that only feels it,

and a simple mind

that only reciprocates it.

Something,

we all relish,

but few have it,

platonic love

is hardly realised.

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