Rajashree’s poem discovers how memories, sorrows, and joy shape life’s fleeting journey, uniting all in a hauntingly beautiful, timeless graveyard reflection, exclusively for Different Truths.

The past vanishes like the morning dew,
And eyes get wet
For memories that feel good.
The sorrows and the joy,
Out of the infinite domain of light and shade,
Illuminate one's short sojourn
Under an unyielding firmness
In a cold coherence.
 
The mourners in their turn
Mourn adequately,
Confirming their bolted sympathy.
Life slips into a saddened graveyard,
Wherefrom it murmurs
In a strange melancholy.
 
The grave synchronises
The poor and the rich, the saint and the devil,
Irrespective of their caste, colour, creed,
Or will.
A salient trial of a kin to attain immortality
In and out of the haunted graveyard
Plunges impulses into the descendants
To come out of algophobia
And live life peacefully in this mortal world.

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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