Picture: Leh, India, June 2019 Date: 4th Jan, 2021 Everything seems far out to me, This fervour, this fire, this fraction of me! Though mystery it is not, anymore to me, It does feel like someone, I have never known in me! There is so much to face up to or so much to endure, There is so much to dream and so much to go for. There is so much to fancy but so much to sense & see, There is not so much... yet so much to me! The more I introspect, the more I get close to discovering me, The more it makes me believe, I have never known this persona of me! Ultra-mint, it makes me, and at liberty, I get to be. Oodles of possibilities, this makes me see, and I dwell in its entirety. New to me as much as it appears to be, It feels like a power that has lived long in me! Not for a day or a month, it has been with me, It looks to have eminently grown in me! It magnifies my life, it deepens me, It will be for aeons, that it lives in me! -- Akriti ...