Rajashree’s poem explores love’s apex, where erotica meets profound emotion, creating a cascade of romantic verse and a fearless life, exclusively for Different Truths.

When fear gets banished,
Passion soon reaches the apex,
Bypassing the timidity of mind and soul
With a strong desire as an annexe.
 
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 the restructuring of dreams
Sealed in hives.
 
Of course, the graceful pages of life get reiterated
While words play hide and seek,
Between the light and the shade,
The language of peace and tranquillity,
Love and fraternity,
Gets rewritten with broken emotions
        and sunken humility,
Ever not to fade.
 
A fearless mind thus forms
       the outline of manhood
And burns itself in the firepots
        of jealousy and ego
To make life impossibly beautiful
And painfully wonderful
For years to come.

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.

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