Stranger Poem by Ratnakar Rout

A black curtain is spread
Night grows to attain puberty
Darkness embraces everything around
Dreams appear and conquer many.

Heart unfolds the petals
From the bottom of the sea
The jewels emerge one after another.

A reign of solitude begins
Bringing loneliness for
Well-known strangers.
For their same body
They desire.

Strangers are strangers
Till they meet or write
Strangers are known
The moment they react
Strangers are friends
When they exchange words.

Once the relation starts
It grows like wild plants
With luxuriant foliage
Swells up like a mountain stream in Rain.

It cares little
The bridges and dams
The obstacles and hindrances
And the bondage.
Know not
What is right
And what is wrong?
And spread in blindly like a wag
They fall pray to an ardent attraction
Value the relation unique
Where there is no expectation.

An absolute faith on some one
And an element of trust and belief
Is called Love
Or infatuation you may call it.