BIJAYANANDA MISHRA

 ROPE IS HOPE

Pleasure and pain are both sides of a coin,
Happiness and sadness explicitly join,
When quiet, cries and laughs, life smiles,
Ropes all desires, dreams sadly fail, senile, (1)

Rainbows of youth, young heart rope,
Juvenile delinquency exploits, a scope,
Live and let live motto metamorphic,
Sinking in troubled times faces terrific (2)

Invisible rope encourages survival,
Drowning in a whirlpool of fear, thrive,
Caught hold of the rope tightly, moved,
Escaped out of danger clearly proved, (3)

The push and pull of a rope is not a game,
Opportunity slips out of hand, blame,
A chord of love, a soft bond, resembles,
A shawl and saree rope ensemble (4)

Seen rope way over the ridges to walk,
Village life carries merchandise remark,
Mountaineering rope ladder challenge,
From sea air-lifted sinking lives amaze, (5)

A flash flood, the flurry sweeps everything,
Uprooted trees, houses, roads, nothing,
Impossible to swim the rope is a savior,
Life is precious; no one treats it as inferior (6)

A Tower of Inferno, a rope can save many.
A rope ladder from a window is not funny,
The light of saving life and a blackened face,
Rope is hope, saving is a scope, surface (7)

Rope in humanity to brotherhood well,
The coils are unbreakable, trust swell.
The Lord has a long rope for misdeeds,
Little chance to escape devotion needs. (viii)

Written by: Bijayananda Mishra
Date of writing: 13th July 2025
Themes: Rope is a ray of light
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