I Love You, Vani Vihar

However your memories lacerate my heart, However your ideology sells in the mart - Voices of pedagogues shriek from afar Here in the murkiness of Parija Library Lost amid books gone stale through years, Now staring emptily at an empty gallery - I cannot forget you, my Vani Vihar! Whatever be your mere looks or essence, Whatever dear, be your reasons of silence - Your very jolliness, it seems, exudes nectar, As I sit here inside the University Canteen Half drowned in the gossip of parting friends Listening to the timid lovers' hushed up din - I know, you are my life, Vani Vihar! However the multitude may denounce your name However through neglect you have lost your fame, Voices from my heart announce wide and far - As I lay in repose in your sprawling garden Admiring the girls now swaying gently homeward, Ah! what songs surge in me all of a sudden - That I love you - love you, Vani Vihar! Note: - Vani Vihar: - The popular name of the Utkal University Campus at Bhubaneswar (Vani = 'Word' as vehicle of knowledge; Vihar = Place of roaming! ! ; Vani Vihar = Where Knowledge Abounds; Abode of the Goddess of Learning) Parija Library: - The central library of Utkal University, named after Pranakrushna Parija, a renowned academician and botanical scientist)