A LOOK AT LIFE-26 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY Let me live my life The way you lived it With all love and passion Far from today's rational world In the beauty of nature Let me enjoy my early childhood Relish every bit of it The way you did In your good old days Let me dance and play Fly in the beautiful world Of prince and princesses Fairies and ghosts And let me have all those moments Which once you had Just do not make me A prisoner of your unrealized dreams and aspirations Do not make me an oblation In your sacrificial rituals To go up and up In the ladder Which never ends I am just another kid Like those in the hamlet I envy them Envy their lives Envy everything They have The carefree life That freedom and open childhood Which I do not have I feel suffocated When I find my childhood in chains Give me that breathing space To breathe And look at the world As it is Even for a while I ever doubt Your love, affection and Concern to see me at the top But for a moment Just get me out of the seclusion The heap of books The monotonous life The values of the larger society The burden of hopes and ambitions Just enable me to have a glimpse At childhood It's beauty, charm and elegance That makes life so beautiful copyright@smruti ranjan 27.11.2015 A LOOK AT LIFE-26 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY Let me live my life The way you lived it With all love and passion Far from today's rational world In the beauty of nature
