Tear fill farewell to Dads

Tear fill farewell to Dads

P K Routray

Ram! Your grief, we all share

with tear from heart, we offer our prayer

“Hey Lord! Take his noble soul to Your Heaven

pardoning him of his omission and commission

if committed at all, it is for us to thrive and prosper.

Hence please thrust all these burdens on our shoulder.”

With your dad, vanished our dad’s generation

thus perished their cane, love, prayer, and protection.

Cherish I, with tears, my mother’s mourning

“The hairs on your back had started growing”

in the absence of my dad from the house for a few days

with all fickle acts, at books, I refused to gaze

Even when I was grown up and beyond my teen

my fear for him deterred me from the path of obscene.

A mother may be the love incarnate

but the father remains an actor the great.

With love and kindness hiding in his heart

acted, he stonehearted to remove our filth and dirt.

I have seen dads staying with hunger and thirst

so that we are well nurtured and well nursed.

Ram, you were lucky to get an opportunity

to serve your dad in this life when he needed it

Through your dad, our dads got the feel

the grandkids and great grand kids’ thrill.

We all are nursing in our hearts the atonements.

With other burdens, did we neglect our parents?

Hey Lord! Won’t you give us an occasion

they become our progenies and we pay back at least a fraction.”

(N . B My classmate Mr Rama Patnaik aged about 71 lost his father on 29^th july ages 99. My tribute for my friend’s father)