Glimpses from Memory Lane

Glimpses from Memory Lane

(With Jnana)

P K Routray

At the prime of our teens

with plethora of desires and dreams

we met amidst hundred other companions

in our college, together after admissions.

From a school boy under parental protection

to a college student with plenty of freedom

we had mixed feeling of joy and apprehension

which lost its weightage under our adolescent union.

I remember fondly time then spent with you

discussing world around with our own fancied hue.

so far then I enjoyed the beauty of a rose in its tree

With you  rose on a dame’s bun started mesmerizing me.

Then fleeing from a class for a midday movie show

I could convince my conscience not to feel low

Together we had gone to flood hit area with serving zeal

Both on virtue abd vice we had first hand feel.

Many acts of fun and fro;ic peep out from my memory lane

I think of running to all of you for a repeat as man insane.

it was since more than five decades or so

but looks as if it is just our yesterday’s show.

 (N . B We lost one ot our dear college hood friend Jnana recently. Remembering our initial days with him in sixties.)