A LOOK AT LIFE-90 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY WHAT DO I NEED? I often ask me What do I need from life? Pelf, power, appreciation Love, relationship and recognition Or something else I do not know? I have had all these to an extent In fact, I have seen both extremes Poverty and affluence Success and failure Love and betrayal Happiness and sorrow Recognition and oblivion Am I happy with all these? I am not convinced What I feel is I have enjoyed and endured all these Only for a period of time Time and again I got involved Time and again I lost interest Is that what life is? Losing interest in the game Again and again. Then what I require from life? Is it to find the real me My real interest Which I have forgotten long since The simple and innocent me With a throbbing heart and unalloyed mind Who lived with love and passion With petty wishes and trifling demands Paper boats, fairies and ghosts Evening bells and morning chants Offering nothing but love and Simplicity at the feet of God Or to seek the source To identify with it Where happiness never ends Where beauty never fades Love and relationship at its fulfilling best From the lips smile never vanishes Where there is perennial spring The primordial sound the divine ong Celestial music moving across the spine Divinity unfolding in body and mind. Smruti Ranhan Mohanty ©Smruti Ranjan mohanty A LOOK AT LIFE-90 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY WHAT DO I NEED? I often ask me What do I need from life? Pelf, power, appreciation