The surname and the nickname

The surname and the nickname

 

With growth and exposure

experiences blessed and bitter

bring man’s personality to fore

and he shapes it to score

as its impressing power

both inner and outer

fetches his name and status

Hence, of it man becomes conscious.

The name, dress and shrugs in dictions

styles and gait as such are ornamentations.

Thus I dwell

to my case, as a preamble tale.

Mohapatra and Choudhury

titles at early age eluded me

because of my Dad’s direction

to arouse a thirst in his son

to have many a qualification

by dint of merit of his own.

Dad I failed to add longer

with one, my life is over.”

Bou was a witness mute

to dad’s decision astute

She saw their son’s failure

to add title longer.

 

To Bou’s angel

the other day I grumble

for my nickname, on her consent

as Gandhia, dirt smut that meant.

Then the angel’s tale

with tears I must yell.

“That nick name wonder

made you live longer

longer than your brother,

longer than your father

your father's brother

and longer than father’s father

so on up in the ancestral ladder.

Think of your life,

with endurable strife

there whatsoever came

contributed certainly you nickname”

Hey Bou! It was a false allegation

out of my deranged emotion.

It is true

vouch I to tell you

Gandhi” from your lip

at each call nectar I used to sip

Now the sweet call I shall miss

repenting my remiss

that I took it granted

immortal, you would stay blessed

hence not recorded your call

to listen it till my breaths stall.

 

 

Prasant kumar Routray

in the service of Lord

 

(I lost my mother (Bou) on 20/5 at he age of 92.who used to call me Gasndhi shortening Gandhia as my nickname which means dirt smut etc . It is given to protect me from evil eyes.This is most probably proved as I still live longer than my brother father father’s father. Bur her call was nectarlike to me. Even other elders’ call never came to my distaste. I never minded the calls.

If I would have written the full titles of my family it would have beden” Choudhury Prasant Kumar Routray Mohapatra instead of prasant kumar Routray”