The Lonely Traveler

Dr Sudhansu Dash

Amidst the familiar faces of the sweet enemies

The lonely man travels alone

The earth has allowed him the freedom

To travel on the shore of the mad sea

To float on the ethereal air

He is far of the horizon where the sun sets

To turn the night into a new dawn

He sees more than the eyes that can grasp

His tears fall in the hope of wisdom

No one descends to him

To lean over and look into his gray eyes

In his heart he felt their strangeness

Their stillness answering his cry

Every word he spoke

Echoes through shadows of emptiness

Lonely is the traveler traveling alone

Who has none to care, none to share

He has given all smiles he had

Trusted every kind of words that betrayed him

Still knocking the moonlit door

Waiting for never to be answered.