Something I Look At-3 Poem by Smrui Ranjan Mohanty

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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