White SOMETHING I LOOK AT-288 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY Look at me I am there where I was long before silently enduring and relishing the pangs of your sorrow, the occasional cheer that comes in between tears as mine exclusively mine I have never turned my back How can I move away from someone I truly love, someone with whom I am always with, someone with whom I will always be? How can I be indifferent to someone who is in the inner sanctum of my heart reigning over my body and mind, shining like a golden rose spreading its fragrance all over? How can I neglect you, my heart and soul, my life breath, the flow in my arteries and veins? How can I lose sight of that beautiful garden, the fountain of love that touched me, touched my body and mind like a handful of spring in hot summer? You are that summer shower which drenched my earth, that occasional spring which made me bloom and look at life through a pair of young eyes We are different coz we are in different situations, our hearts split into pieces not being able to do justice to our love on one hand and values of society, duties and obligations on the other. Dreaming is fascinating, but the reality is something one has to live with. You are both in my dreams and reality, may not be the way you want me Smruti Ranjan Mohan ©Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

White SOMETHING I LOOK AT-355 BY- SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY When I look at me I see a stranger, a changed man with a different colour and odour I ask myself, am I the same as I used to be or someone else with whom I do not identify? I do not understand how a desert became a paradise, a mountain a dancing rivulet, a man of reason and rationality a fountain of love and positivity A summer shower drenched me, the winter sun told me, man you are not what you used to be, the sweet aroma of spring made me realise there is still time to make a fresh beginning. It is you, yes it is you who made an island a big ocean with infinite dreams and possibilities, an old man counting his days young once again. Your touch of grace took me to the days of my youth from where I do not want to come back to the realities of life It is none else but you who made me dream and visualise beauty in what I see. You made me your man. But my love, I am not the same with whom once you fell in love and weaved dreams millions. I am a changed man Can you love me in my new avatar, a stranger whom you hardly know or should I go back to my old self where nothing mattered except love for each other, where love was a feeling, a consciousness beyond body and mind unparalleled in the history of human evolution. Smruti Ranjan Mohanty ©Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

White SOMETHING I LOOK AT-278 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY Know not How I come under a spell That takes me to a different world Where I do not remain myself Know not What happens to me I become someone else The world around looks so beautiful once again Know not Amid hot summer How do I feel the cool breeze of spring Touching my body and mind Telling emphatically My days are not over Still, I have plenty of life in me Know not Why do I see the peacock dancing Hoping rain on its way When there are no clouds in the sky Why the sun fancies the blooming lotus When there is darkness around Signalling it is late at night I know I am in my dream A beautiful dream Out of which I never venture to come out An intriguing dream More real and fascinating than reality Where I love to live the rest of my life. Smruti Ranjan Mohanty ©Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

White SOMETHING I LOOK AT-288 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY Look at me I am there where I was long before silently enduring and relishing the pangs of your sorrow, the occasional cheer that comes in between tears as mine exclusively mine I have never turned my back How can I move away from someone I truly love, someone with whom I am always with, someone with whom I will always be? How can I be indifferent to someone who is in the inner sanctum of my heart reigning over my body and mind, shining like a golden rose spreading its fragrance all over? How can I neglect you, my heart and soul, my life breath, the flow in my arteries and veins? How can I lose sight of that beautiful garden, the fountain of love that touched me, touched my body and mind like a handful of spring in hot summer? You are that summer shower which drenched my earth, that occasional spring which made me bloom and look at life through a pair of young eyes We are different coz we are in different situations, our hearts split into pieces not being able to do justice to our love on one hand and values of society, duties and obligations on the other. Dreaming is fascinating, but the reality is something one has to live with. You are both in my dreams and reality, may not be the way you want me Smruti Ranjan Mohan ©Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

White SOMETHING I LOOK AT-355 BY- SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY When I look at me I see a stranger, a changed man with a different colour and odour I ask myself, am I the same as I used to be or someone else with whom I do not identify? I do not understand how a desert became a paradise, a mountain a dancing rivulet, a man of reason and rationality a fountain of love and positivity A summer shower drenched me, the winter sun told me, man you are not what you used to be, the sweet aroma of spring made me realise there is still time to make a fresh beginning. It is you, yes it is you who made an island a big ocean with infinite dreams and possibilities, an old man counting his days young once again. Your touch of grace took me to the days of my youth from where I do not want to come back to the realities of life It is none else but you who made me dream and visualise beauty in what I see. You made me your man. But my love, I am not the same with whom once you fell in love and weaved dreams millions. I am a changed man Can you love me in my new avatar, a stranger whom you hardly know or should I go back to my old self where nothing mattered except love for each other, where love was a feeling, a consciousness beyond body and mind unparalleled in the history of human evolution. Smruti Ranjan Mohanty ©Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

White SOMETHING I LOOK AT-278 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY Know not How I come under a spell That takes me to a different world Where I do not remain myself Know not What happens to me I become someone else The world around looks so beautiful once again Know not Amid hot summer How do I feel the cool breeze of spring Touching my body and mind Telling emphatically My days are not over Still, I have plenty of life in me Know not Why do I see the peacock dancing Hoping rain on its way When there are no clouds in the sky Why the sun fancies the blooming lotus When there is darkness around Signalling it is late at night I know I am in my dream A beautiful dream Out of which I never venture to come out An intriguing dream More real and fascinating than reality Where I love to live the rest of my life. Smruti Ranjan Mohanty ©Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty