SOMETHING I LOOK AT-49

 SOMETHING I LOOK AT-49

BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY

Where is that space in our heart

for those who made their day and night 

together to let us stand and

made us what we are.

Do we pay anything for

the air we breathe, the water

we drink and the sunshine

that keeps us alive?

or we are just apathetic

to our own survival?

Where is the heart that beats?

Are we so selfish

having no space in our heart

for those significant others

and the environment that sustains and

nourishes us all along?

Are we bundles of self-interests,

is our value system, the sum total

of naked self-interests, largely defined

in terms of material gain

or something else?

Our selfish will have put

us in a dark corner and

for our own doings

we are in the depth of the abyss.

No way out,

we are to realise the truth that by

having a genuine concern and love for others

we are but helping our own existence.

In our heart

we are to create that space

for others and learn to live together

and love each other to come out of

the depth of the abyss

where we are,

or else with all our economic development

and sophisticated idiocy

we are but leading our civilization

to its death,

poignant and premature.

copyright@smrutiranjan 3.8.2017