A LOOK AT LIFE,-161

 A LOOK AT LIFE-161

BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY

Life is both

smile and tears,

happiness and sorrow,

hope and despair,

virtue and vices 

but not a solitary asylum  in a no man's land

to be silently crused and endured 

Life is both

meeting and parting,

love and separation,

involvement and alienation,

agony and ecstasy,

accomplishment and failure.

Be with it, its ebb and tide

before it fades into nothing 

Life is a beautiful poem 

if you know how to compose it.

Life is a lyric if you know how to sing it

Life is a paradise if you have the eyes to see it

Life is the voice of the nightingale 

if you have the ears to listen it.

If you run away from it

it becomes prosaic.

The more you unfold its pages,

the more you feel frustrated.

Be a passionate lover, 

life may leave you lifeless and 

you may land yourself in a dry desert

devoid of beauty and fragrance.

The biggest tragedy is not dying 

but dying while still alive.

Live with love and passion 

feelings and emotion,

zeal and aspiration.

Have your moments,

good and bad.

Enjoy and endure.

Despite of all its uncertainties 

life is so beautiful, so fascinating 

a god's dream 

to be lived and relished 

till the last beat 

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty©

India

5.10.2921

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