When You're With Me Poem by Prafulla Kumar Panda

When you're with me,
pleasant is my journey
when love has been an aid-
a glow on dark to illumine my path,
also an elixir to quench my thirst

as spring with its sweet tongue
whispers into a tree with promises many-
a life full of youthful vigour- lots of feasibility-
amidst offshoots many,
so you do come with the vernal wind
to comfort my unstable mind,
to soothe my arid soul,
and to instill in me with hope many
and courage a lot for the new role that you assign

being stirred, I bundle up all treasures
and tie the bale to my back-
to row on in the life's vast ocean
and unto the distant horizon
when you readily step up along the mission.
©Prafulla Kr. Panda, India.
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