A Divine Knot

 A Divine Knot

 

On your 50^th joyous wedding day

we, all your friends in unison pray

lying prostrate before the Almighty

with utmost sincerity and humility

from all, our hearts’ abyss

for your happiness, peace, and bliss

with conjugal harmony in benign bounty

staying together life after life for eternity

hey madam Shradhanjali and Pal Trinath

while applauding and congratulating you both

with gratitude from friends and society around

for the aura of sweetness in you, they found.

It is sacred, heavenly love and bondage

which has roots beyond this fifty years age

beginning as a teenage boy and a girl aged teen

born with a guru and a dad’s assent in between.

Hey madam Sradhanjali and pal Trinath!

The match was made by the lord before your birth

proved by your succeeding role-play on the earth

open out your heart now and tell the latent truth

reminiscing your dreams since nineteen sixty-one

a decade earlier to your union under the sun

whenTrinath was a school hostel boarder

Shardhanjali’s dad was an NCC teacher.

and a fearsome hostel superintendent, 

students were afraid of his punishment

Often even now with friendly nefarious joy

I think of the plight of a mufassil boy

being a hostel boarder in the eighth class

casting his eye covetous on a lass

who was a five-year-old daughter

of such revered disciplined NCC teacher

exposed and handed to the teacher, the father

rest scenes dance to his foe -boarders’ laughter

Please permit me to dwell upon the story

with it, a child’s dream and a teenager’s glory.

Laugh you may but feel the excitement, thrilling

but recall this decade- earlier, the feeling

Today going back to those golden days

please at the events then, you, both gaze.

feel the excitement of your that ages; Glory

with the excitement of a movie and Grandma’s story.

Pardon me or pat me, tract you may deem fit

but the revelation of my recollections, I cannot quit

with clarity, I recall your story, six decades back

ten years prior to your wedding when maturity, you did lack

to paint a dream of love between

a girl of five and a boy of thirteen

At this age, we must know your story emotional

glittered with time on node exceptional.

Let me frame you in my love story

and in it, its love’s heavenly  glory

true it is, my true assessment thus that I tell

no spices I add, it is divine, I loudly yell.

Trinath since sixty-one came as a boarder

Shardhanjail’s dad was Trinath’s teacher.

The scene was then set between

a girl of five and a boy of thirteen

The gal with parental love shaping her destiny

and her dad kept all his students under scrutiny

to choose a groom for his fast-growing daughter

with all-round qualities, dreamt by parents, ever

to be chosen from among his students, with character

with verification of the boy's background further

leaving no stone unturned to ensure

his daughter's future is secure

“on the academic front, students are the best

character and personality scoring over the rest”

 Shradhanjali must be listening to her grandma’s story

dream the love of a Prince with winged horses - glory

listening to princes’ tales from grandmother

conceived groom of a  prince’s stature for her

tot take her often for a winged - horse ride

ornamenting her with jewelery to her pride

winning kingdom after kingdom

keeping many aids under her thumb

that girl of five can at best frame

Shrdhanjali must have dreamt the same.

This expectation altered with growing age

to search for the prince she lacked the courage

listened to she must have her parental conversation

for the possible prince for her negotiation

matching and even excelling her dad’s stipulation

with one-to-one personal close verification.

the herculean task to his taste fastidious

kept the gal till sixteen praying against such fuss.

when she heard eureka and eureka from his dad’s lip

to have a glance of her prince dreams her did grip.

Trinnath being the student the best, adored this teacher

commanding NCC, a strict and upright, he is the girl’s father

in his heart of heart, thoughts peeped to dreams as a teenager

as he could know this all-feared guru has a daughter

Trinath from the hostel watched movies and read novels galore

conceived his sweetheart  in the line from his heart’s core

"Being the daughter of his adorable teacher

She must be matching his heroine’s character."

Hence it is my humble but firm conclusion

today is the couple’s  diamond jubilee celebration

fleed the golden jubilee way back, a decade

deserve they both the society’s highest accolade

let us get ready for celebrating Sapphire and Platinum Jubilee days

praying that their harmony and health continue to blaze.

prepare for the diamond jubilee get-together

to wish Trinath and Shrdhanjali many, further.

Five decades back today as records say

the wedding took place on an open altar, this day

to my revelation, you may laugh away

and take the day as their G J day, not DJ day

 

hey Shrdhanjali and Trinath couple, divine

shoulder to shoulder as if creepers in twine

you pulled your sixty years through many ups and downs

from us and your children today you deserve all the crowns

Missed you might have, prince and horse with wing

or heroines that you saw on screen with her provoking swing

but you got and gifted each other with love, divine

a family tree that will keep your name all time to shine.

Together pray we

for prosperous growth of your family tree

staying hale and hearty adoring you in the family knot

spreading the fragrance around, that them you taught.

 

P K Routray

in the
service of the Lord

( N>B My childhood friend married to Madam Shradhanjali on 7 th Junune 1973. It is composed in the honor of their golsen jubilee celebration)