Over Due Gratitude

Overdue Gratitude

p k routray

 

 

From my sick chair

from core of heart with my prayer

to soon recover

from the lungs’ disorder

occurred me a thought

gratitude pay I must

to my dear consort

before the soul departs its mortal fort

as the medicines she brought

forgetting last feud we fought

starting from milk spill over

to many stored in her armor.

Thought I for my classmates,

must be fighting the same fates.

As I grow old them I search the more

concern for them comes to the fore.

With them, I dive to those days

energy, fun, confidence vibrate and blaze,

make me young forgetting the old age

with its ailments roaring out of cage.

Thought I hence this composition

for my friend’s lifelong companion

never too much never too long,

time and patience to them belong.

Mystery in them over forty years or so

staying and struggling together still we do not know.

When they will hug, when they will push

keeps us over the years beating the bush.

For garments and ornaments, they blame you

overflowing wardrobe and lost in its corner lying new,

ornaments in locker one saree once she might have worn

if you count sarees many will be left for grandkids’ fun.

Remember we our discussion as teenagers

on our schools and college days’ spinsters

overbreadth and the length of the state

voluptuous sirens on their majestic best,

Their furtive glances, mysterious smile

erroneously cast at us pushed us many miles

series of love letters and advice of many friends

catch me smiling at this dead bend last of the bends..

A topper in class, a sports blue in the field

behind stay their inspiration whom we did yield.

Now in our spouses from the date of negotiation

till this five-decade togetherness, I found in them none.

But in our thick and thin we did shoulder together

the burden of family, would have been too much without her.

The better halves tolerate more at her cost

hubby and kids occupy their mind uppermost.

The word “ Better half” of the whole family befit them

Salute I the linguistic expert for creating the same.

Now I look puzzled on the definition of love then and now

mistakenly the Plutonian love that Shakes pear could only show.

But a comparison between kid from her womb

if are drawn her hubby from a parental groom

your spouse prays for her kid’s glory over you

this love also baffles me how to us love they view.

Is it? That all loves sprouts in their heart after nuptial knot

platonic, motherly, slavery many such to me they brought.

Five decades of togetherness over frowning realities of life

always they stood shoulder to shoulder in the smiles and strife.

Sleepless nights, starving stomach, the hunger of competition

under the struggle for the family are kept in them, hidden.

their kitty purses never get swollen because of our theft

At times caught, at times bluffed, but it is made up from our wallet...

The better halves being younger outlive us and should stay longer

from the other side of the world, we will be helpless to see them in tear.

Now we individually and collectively pay our gratitude to them

yes, we hubbies are useless individually and take their blames.

Gratitude to Madams which is overdue tp you all

whether a next life will come with you, We are only the lord’s doll.

 

 

( N.B -A gratitude for our better Halves who stay with us lifelong