As It Is Poem by Ramakrushna Sahu

Why should I be always critical
On anything else
Why should i present myself
In an actor's face
Shining like a polished boot
Why should I not appear
In a simple human face?

I have not come here for exhibition
Of my presence in a special way
Why should I compete
To sit on the dias with a mike
Why not listen what others say
Sitting in the common audience As ordinary and unknown?

Is it necessary to paint a flower
with artificial colours?
Is it necessary to wash clouds
with surf water?
To paint the sea and the sky
With a different shade of blue ?
It is necessary to make up
A human face with imagination
To be looked like a god ?

Let thing be as it is
Immense is its beauty
In its originality
Let's not disfigure human face
In the name of creativity
Let's not make anything critical
Let truth be a clean mirror
To reflect man as he is.