ALOK KUMAR RAY

ALOK KUMAR RAY

TEARS

Do tears evaporate?

Like water

Mingle in the air

Leaving no scar, no sacrilege

Do tears elevate?

Like meditation

Facilitate body and mind coordination

Bringing no turbulence, no outrage

Or tears relieve

Like a shower

After days of piercing summer

Leaving nothing left, no sharp edge

Or tears showcase

As if mirth thrills

Drop from eye balls

Bringing only peace, nothing strange

lost relationship

My entire life is dedicated for my

Kith and kin who are really part and parcel of me

A huge time of four decades have passed like

Water in the Ganges in-between

Sewn of broken relations together with thread

Of love, affection and commitment

Bits of sacrifices along with scraps of

Blood affinity is now impossible altogether

My many dreams remained virgin and abandoned

In the pages of my life’s dusty notebook

As the life itself became pathetic, the dust

Like neglected whims has wrapped it with gravity

Ah, I do not find a single benevolent soul to whom I would speak

My dreams now scattered here and there like

Falling leaves in autumn

The napkin when lost necessity is abandoned

See how an ideal familiar

Bonding lost to you

You who was the pillar of the

Family then now is a piece of rough paper

The words which my own people uttered

Against me in this age of mine are

Very melancholic but no one is prepared to pay hid!!!

A SOLDIER’S LONGING

Each time when harsh sound of mortar

I here from all along the border

I remember thunder and lighting

Which as one we both enjoyed

While cuddling each other in a solitary shed….

Here when I roughly smell

Something unprecedented being a sniper

Suspicious activity along with border

I remember your grievance

Which a spouse succumbs to with trance…

Here for us days and nights are same

Like an ant we work incessantly forgetting time factor

I remember our days

When in ecstatic pleasure

How could we surpass time’s rude gesture….

Here when I see

My colleagues attends martyrdom

That my days are numbered now

I remember you as before

Bid flying kiss as adieu amidst gunfire………

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ALOK KUMAR RAY

Dr. ALOK KUMAR RAY : Ray is a lecturer by profession who teaches Political Science to both undergraduate and post graduate students. Being a bilingual poet many of his poems (both Odia and English) have been published in both national and international anthologies, journals, magazines and periodicals.