Today Poem by Ramakrushna Sahu

Let me listen the songs
Of those who called me friend
And the snarling of those
Who called me enemy

Let me attend to the desires
Of my blood and bones
Let me hear the whispers
Of the past dead and
The future yet to be born
All absent but pleasent

Let me kiss the flowers
For tomorrow to be nowhere
Let me inhale the air
That may take farewell
At any moment unnoticed,
Let me kiss the earth today
That smells sweetest of death
The moment I take rest on her lap.

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