Dictionaries’ voice

Dictionaries’ voice
P K Routray

When there is no light, it is dark
the ignorance is the state, when the knowledge we lack.
The absence of heat is the cold,
these definitions, all dictionaries do uphold.
The light, heat and knowledge are natural traits as ever acknowledged,
darkness, ignorance and cold are only deduced as forced upon states imaged .
Similarly love, purity and happiness are man’s inherent traits,
hatred, impurity, unhappiness in him, his environment creates.
Bliss and tranquility have no antonymous, as we find,
as if they are synonymous with characteristics of mankind.
Naturally with little effort man can stick to his own divine traits, lying latent,
and dispel the alien states of vices, angste and hatreds at every and any moment.