Till I Live Poem by Ramakrushna Sahu

The world that my vision
has encircled
All people near and far within
known and unknow
Those who have entered
into my vision
Will have no death till I live

The nature with the beauty
of my mother
The small river near my village
That taught me how to flow
All those birds who taught me
How to fly in my childhood
And the clouds to please me
Were following my imagination,
The shadow of the lonely mango tree
Where I was waiting for my love to meet
Are all alive as they were in me

All those faces who loved me
And whom I loved
Also those who hurt me in hate
Though some of them
Have gone for hiding
In the shadow of time
Are all alive in me

The earth and the life
That I have lived and imagined
Caught in my thoughts and words
Are and will be there with me
No death can snatch them
From my world of vision
Encircled by my love for life
Till it venture to overpower me.