Sidhu! We are grateful

Sidhu! We are grateful

P K Routray

On the operation table, us, you remembered

with emptions disturbed and visions blurred

enduring the pain, nausea, the feelings hell

whilr recovering from the administered anesthetic spell.

Restricted by the chain of the medicating gadgets

your WhatsApp then dumbstruck your classmates.

The act has touched the hearts of your friends.

the doubt if any in their spouses on the bondage thus ends.

“ To live further ahead we need such tested friends

who will be our old-man’s stick at the coming bends.

Five years’ lessons of friendship have been forgotten

your exhibition of love is for us a brush-up lesson.

Many classmates who shared loincloths in those days,

may your WhatsApp call wake up thm from their daze.

at least on a logic that being of the same ripe age

together we will meet after leaving this mortal cage.

There what will happen in my third eye I clearly see

isolated they will float, others in the group will dance with glee.

Desolated will be they with time drawing nigh

desolated by age grief of repentance they will sigh

the oldage, the isolation, forlornness will take its toll

For vitamin-F is the nectar then, thus is our Bhuyan’s call.

Instead of we visiting Sighu in the hospital as our courtesy visits

he came to us in person we acclaim it as a height of friendship spirits.

Sidhu! we are grateful, your love for us is proved true and pure,

under the physical agonies, the spell of your heart made it sure.

On this auspicious day, we are dampened feeling your absence

you come out quickly to celebrate together, now it is kept in abeyance.

N.B - My batch mate a seventy years old friend has undergone his first operation and is in the hospital for second operation. After recovering from anesthesia’ spell he sent by WhatsApp his conditions and exchange like a normal man.we were two hundred fifty classmates. Some remain aloof.)