My Life Poem by Sasanka Sekhar Panda

I am in the trodden path
of emptiness, where
all the time
prevails the darkness,
with a chilling silence,
the entire path
is strewn with
thorny cactus,
I won't break down,
even if put in a
dark dungeon,
I have tasted the
fruit of love,
life enduring,
that is its gift.
I hear the cuckoo
still singing
somewhere in the
dense branches
of the mango tree,
somewhere you are
waiting for me,
I know
in some deep
corners of my heart,
you live.
my life.