The Countdown-30 Poem by Smrui Ranjan Mohanty

THE COUNTDOWN-30

DLFA(My last station)
I love you
Know not
How I fell in love
When you became my heart and soul

DLFA
I will cherish your last kiss
On my way to obscurity
You are my lone identity
My love! be by my side
When none will be with
When alienation grips me
My body and mind
Your memory will keep me alive

Three years before
When I put my first steps here
Never thought you will be my first love
My last station will be my heavenly abode
Your offspring with whom I worked
Become my permanent treasure

Never knew
When you completely blanketed me
Possessed my whole being
Became the lone light house on my windy shore
Guiding my life boat safely home

To you I owe my identity
My success of being adjudged
International poet of the year thrice
It is you who inspired me
And let my pen bleed and fetch me
What I never conceived
Even in the wildest of my dreams

When I feel lonely
The memory of my brothers and sisters
With whom I worked
Will let me smile

No farewell from you
How can you bid farewell to Someone you love
As an incumbent of a chair
I will step down
But as an individual, I will be always with you
Keeping you in the heart of my heart
Sharing your moments
Of agony and ecstasy as my own

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty©
India
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