My Dear Rabi

My Dear Rabi

 

Rabi your joy

us to share and say

tear you, your heart open

as you felt we, all are one

no distinction of entities two

a point , all scriptures advocate too.

A simpleton, you are , some feel

but to you, with gratitude overspill

“A man like you cannot sustain today

world being too complex to stay”

But you succeeded with flying color

in all four pursuits of life, man prays for

Facebook lost

your friends, most

kept captivated

by your postings crafted

as the shock of your loss, sudden

robbed them of F B ‘s ornamented fun.

There to your friends, multitude

your absence will be indeed too rude

to run through this media for fun

thus this, they may abandon.

losing you and your spark

and in them, an indelible void mark.

On fb your galaxy of friends

a scroll on it never ends

embracing a wider section

indeed webbed in your affection.

 

Treated, you, life as a span of fun.

Bar on relation was no exception

even your son joked at you

“With us, at teenage what did you do?”

as an spicy extension to our whispers

comverted through their spouse's ears

Commenting on your imaginary girl fried

with daughter in laws joining the trend

transcending age and relation.

Benign bondage created, your fun

evident from your Dubai stay

that all cite in praise to say

in an age, fragile, starts a relation

the day a separate entity is born.

 

On your 49th wedding day

many promises you intended to say

with your spouse joining you

over our jovial video view

to celebrate your jubilee golden

in a gala way with no comparison

as it would be the best of our batch

a get-together with none to match

that we all would dance to admit

It, your diamond jubilee might beat.

“Man proposes God disposes” is the say

But Lord shattered the dreams in cruel way

Dreams were shattered in cruel way

Lord! You,  we all humbly pray

to bless them wherever they stay.

 

Rabi! We each in person

seek and beg your pardon

as while you needed us more

to get mental strength to cure

A few and far between was our visit

a grievous injustice we admit.

It is pandemic appearing anew

we could not as we thought to do

being crippled by fear of pandemic

too harsh to old and diseased chronic.

Even to Rabi’s mortal remains

last glance denied by constrains

imposed by authority as strict order

to save public from pandemic horror.

the unfulfilled urge bleeds our heart

For the good, that no boon can thwart

we could not bid adieu to the departed dear

curse we us as humanbeings and love inner.

Hey Lord your verdict is ultimate

but for us it is too much to tolerate

Lord you have to bless his soul noble

to you our prayer sincere and humble..

 

Rabi! To you I must be true

that how much do I envy you

your exposures and experiences

to multitude of people and places

your Nawaz Sharif’s meet

dinners with cine stars, sweet

Sheikh and Nawabs at Dubai

snaps as record, that enjoyed, we

you grand kid teaching you, dances

and your failure and its teacher-like menaces

your success story you only could write

as success depends upon man’s own sight.

Scriptural dictum was inbuilt in you

that with bowed head friends view.

Let all our malice to your success show

tuen to our prayer for you as always so.

 

With tears, cherish I to say

your proud skype display

“Madam messaging your feet

as Sahara Nawab you enjoying it’

exhibited to me as a witness friend

Alka madam, it did not offend

As usual I made it public

your reaction was a pride rustic

My photo frees and its wide sale

like your grandson, your chest did swell

My reflection on it now and then

bring my head down to you again again

Birth after birth with righteous deed

for liberation, scores man adds thus to his credit.

 

As teenagers

before fifty five years

At our alma-nater

with creed cusions so differ

your charisma from day one

with Hindi, English spoken broken

brought many to you as dear

continued it all these years

As a teen aged Gadajati born

staying far from parents to learn

succeeded you in your mission

as acclaimed by your contribution

in India and aboard in your field

we are proud of its much-admired yield.

your colleague’s and bosses in unison

are proud and speak highly of your contribution.

 

Clear was your diction

“Come we here for frolic and fun

nothing is yours or nothing is mine

our relation is born benign’

right from the day we met

it, our alma mater had set

no wall or no head wound

could stop you from friend bound

at a mid-night to take his care

or to the class tutorial to share

some said it as sleepwalk

but was food for us many a talk.

To meet a friend

then the message you could send

that touched our heart

and it, later nothing could thwart

not marriage, not family life

not service no tribulation and strife.

 

Incidents galore in me peep

to reveal, you my reverence deep

watching you from close proximity

from teenager to your final exit

Simple sober sweet and sincerer

never raised you, your voice in anger

against criticism false or true

as if born as god’s boy eyed blue

Lucky indeed I am to have such a man

and lived as his friend for a life span.

 

Your joy of pride, I remember

instead of punishing a wrong doer

when posted I a letter

to you, from a girl spinster

on GET hostel notice board

and in laughter when the hostel roared.

Announcing and introducing her

as she is your would be life partner

nipping in bud the grape vine to grow

she through her script stealing the show.

Used I to pass on this in reception

to your daughter in laws to your elation.

another anecdote, I must dwell

wherever he may be his pride to swell

At Bhilai while as trainee engineer

together with enough leisure

two girls were brought to gossip

passed on to us by senior, us to stirrup

threir brother was searching for match

to we bachelors, at that age it was a catch

to have friendship under the cover of marriage

many among us vied to enjoy the privilege

but their address was known to none

anyhow I could know their house location.

My success kept hidden for remuneration

only exposed to Rabi to his utter elation

with an accepted condition

of fifty paisa Rabidi plate on return

Rabi was too haste to register

as for the girl's to be candidate pioneer

agreeing to all my terms

to accompany me he broke many norms

clean shaving at an odd time

with borrowed razor to look fine

and took a cycle of a friend in toilet

as he knew or else a cycle he would not get

rest is left for you to conjure and imagine

to the couple I have narrated times umpteen

to see on Rabi Alka’s bangles’ beat

and to enjoy with friends, the treat

but Alka remained silent as she knew

at that age to Rabi her pardon was due.

Divine couple, match made in heaven

this is just a transitory end of a session.

 

 

P K Routray

In the service of Lord

(In honor of my friend Rabi Narayan Dash who was my classmate for five years in sixties and was in close touch till our retirent and after wards together we lived till Rabi’s last breathe. He left for his Heavenly abode on 19 th April. This is my tribute to the departed soul.)