A LOOK AT LIFE-59 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY IN LOVE WITH LIFE Of what use Living the rest of life Regretting all the while for what one has not achieved. Of what use Going down the memory lane Lamenting those days and nights Which one missed Being engrossed in mundane deeds. Of what use Cursing oneself For running away from life its rhythm and rhyme Making a hell of the present and the days to come by No question Life could have been lot better If one would have understood The value of relationship and flight of time. Most of us lived life Not the way it should have been Not the way one wished But by one's perception of fulfillment The values of society Largely defined in terms of Recognition, power and money. Where your kid's smile, parent's tears And wife's longing never seemed to have any meaning. From childhood to the fifties Nobody knows how time flies. All of a sudden one finds He is old and the golden days of the youth Are far behind. By the time one realises He is in the late fifties or early sixties. With nothing to look forward One looks back and broods over the past Dead and gone Only to come across the Moist eyes and shattered dreams of his own. Caught in between a past, not fully lived And a future, dark and uncertain One arrives on the horns of dilemma Neither he forgets the past Nor lives in the present and dreams for the future. With a dead past and uncertain future One can still love and live It does not matter how old are you? You can always love and live Look at your better half She is as beautiful as she used to be The only thing you have not looked at her long since Come on! look at the world around The sun and moon, seas and rivers, Mountains and meadows, flowers and orchids They were as beautiful as they were Get up! live life as you wish Still you have plenty of time and life in you Make a fresh beginning A golden future is awaiting Live the beautiful present Live life with its spellbinding grandeur And for sure make good of What you missed over the years Smruti Ranjan Mohanty© #flood A LOOK AT LIFE-59 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY IN LOVE WITH LIFE Of what use Living the rest of life Regretting all the while for what one has not achieved.