Rajashree’s poem explores the beauty and pain of life, blending fearlessness and passion, exclusively for Different Truths.

When fears get banished
Passion reaches its boiling point
Bypassing the timidity of mind and soul.
 
Erotic thoughts erratically move around
And get protruded over the head,
Impressing the neighbourhood
As if flowing smoothly in a calm stream,
In a form of romantic verse that cascades.

Every drop of the flow
Creates a new poem on the sediments of life,
Whose reverberation sings 
The glory of building and crashing dreams.
 
Of course
The graceful pages of life are reiterated,
While words play hide and seek
Between light and shade 
Above all
The language of peace and tranquility
And love and fraternity get rewritten
With broken emotions and sunken humility.
 
A fearless mind thus forms the outlines
Of manhood
And burns self in the firepots of jealousy
and ego
To make life impossibly beautiful,
And painfully wonderful.

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Rajashree Mohapatra

Rajashree Mohapatra, born in Odisha, has received her master’s degree in ‘History’, and ‘Journalism and Mass Communications’ from Utkal University. She is a teacher by profession. Being a postgraduate in ‘Environmental Education and Industrial Waste Management’ from Sambalpur University, she has devoted herself as a social activist to the cause of social justice, environmental issues, and human rights in remote areas through non-governmental organisations. Poetry, painting, and journalism are her passions.