A LOOK AT LIFE-57 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY you don't need to tell me i know who i am a nonentity struggling for an identity in the vast multitude of humanity living in a world where success so difficult to come by i often ask me a question if i succeed, will it make me a man? what to do with success if that will take me away from my small world from the things i love, the people i love to be with what to do with recognition and appreciation if that will make me someone else, alien to myself what to do with all my affluence if my conscience deserts me, my feelings, emotions and gestures never remain mine when nobody with me to share my accomplishment and agony what to do with that glittering world where my own do not have places to live in where my childhood friend can't hug me men and women of my village cannot identify with me, my riches and success and look at me as if i am not their own someone who has come from another heaven of what use that success? if it snatches away that innocent smile from my face of what use that pelf and power that makes me a virtual beggar begging for an ounce of love and tear in a noman's land i am happy as i am with my modest possessions i am the king of my world, do not need anything more that will take me away from my heart and soul let me remain as i am, an unknown man with petty dreams and tiny pleasures i don't want to part with my simplicity my innocent mind and conscience and live in a pseudo world of treachery and hypocrisy where castles are built in air love and relationships crucified to satisfy one's hunger, greed and fancy there was no fanfare when i was born my death will be uneventful let me live and remain the way i am with all that i value and love in the midst of love and tears genuine feelings and emotions and die a peaceful death in open air and broad daylight, in presence of near and dear do i need anything more? ©smrutiranjan 12.10.2918 All copyrights reserved #A LOOK AT LIFE-57 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY you don't need to tell me i know who i am a nonentity struggling for an identity in the vast multitude of humanity living in a world where success so difficult to come by