Accompany
In aloof
evenings often he comes
Wearing a white
shirt and blue jeans
Without
invitations even
He sits besides,
very close
Sometimes
holding my hands
Sometimes
looking into my eyes
Reading the
silent verses
Sometimes sipping
from my coffee cup
Without taking
my permission even
Often, we
witness
The first
evening star
The first
morning star
And in between
some shooting stars
Also, we count
the countless stars
We gaze the hide
and seek of moon
Obsessively we
observe the constellations and galaxies
On the screen of
horizon
‘Loneliness’
always accompanied me
He never ever
left me alone
A reliable
partner, lives in my mind.
Copyright©Dr. Gita Mohanty
Care
I had to
struggle
When I dragged
my unwilling feet
To walk away
from you
I had little
pain
When I didn’t
allow myself to look back again
My eyes felt
foggy
When I warned
them not to trickle
My heart felt
heavy
When I urged it
to detach, itself from the emotions
Still, I did
everything
So that you
wouldn’t have pain
Of my presence
Or of my
absence.
Copyright©Dr. Gita Mohanty
Frozen
Numbness
No more emotions
make the noise
In the corridor
of my mind
No more tears
trickles down
To wet my chest
No rise and fall
of palpitations
With the
cessation of the expectations
No more tap on
my tender sentiments
It’s a solace
holding a frozen heart
I have no
complaints,
rather I’m
thankful to this beautiful world
Making it easy
in my part,
To detach and
depart.
Copyright©Dr. Gita Mohanty
GITA MOHANTY
GITA MOHANTY is an assistant Biology professor in USA,
Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India, and
post-doctorate from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in Environmental
Science and Engineering. She is a passionate poetry writer, with a compassionate
heart and beautiful mind. She has written more than one thousand five hundred
(1500) poems so far and many are published in various online poetry
forums/platforms, literary web magazines, e-journals and several anthologies.
Poetry to her is an inner conversation with her own soul, who believes in free
flowing and spreading smile across. She also likes painting, photography,
reading, philosophy and interacting with nature. She is motivated in serving
the unprivileged and presently working for the visually impaired and
economically challenged student’s college/university higher education support
and their self-sustenance. She believes, unconditional love and compassion are
the most elegant characteristics of a true being.
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