You are not here though
But a part of you
Is still in my heart
Yet whole of you
Will never really leave.
Crawl inside my skin
Leak within my heart
Tell me if there isn’t
Madness and chaos in me.
I throw our love
Across the sky
Watching the world to know
Where I have found you.
I burn for you
As severely as Sun burns
Till the relief of twilight.
May be,
We just found ourselves
As never before
At the wrong time,
And someday
Time will take us back
Together as before.
Monalisa Parida
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Bio:- Monalisa Parida is a post graduate student of English literature from India, Odisha and a prolific poetess. She is very active in social media platforms and her poems have also been translated into different languages and publish in various e-journals.
She has got 70 international award for writing poetry. Her poems have been publishing international e-journals “New York parrot”, “The Writers Club” (USA), “Suriyadoya literary foundation”, “kabita Minar”, “Indian Periodical” (India) and “Offline Thinker “, “The Gorkha Times “ ( Nepal), “The Light House”(Portugal), “Bharatvision”(Romania), “International cultural forum for humanity and creativity”(Aleppo, Syria), “Atunispoetry.com”(Singapore) etc. And also published in various newspapers like “The Punjabi Writer Weekly(USA)”, “News Kashmir (J&K, India)”, Republic of Sungurlu (Turkey)” etc.
One of her poem published an American anthology named “The Literary Parrot Series-1 and series-2 respectively (New York, USA)”. Her poems have been translated in various languages like Hindi, Bengali, Turkish, Persian, Romanian etc. And she is the author of the book “Search For Serenity”.