Sidhu, we are with you

Sidhu, we are with you

P K Routray

In our very first year, all were awestruck as we remember.

Our professor Srivasta Nanda acknowledged in the class his fear

witnessing in the previous evening Sidhu’s muscles on display

with a crown of Rengcolshree in his kity beating many in the fray.

At his exhibition on his Side Chest Side Triceps

front Lat Spread, Front Double Biceps

Back Double Biceps Back Lat Spread

dancing Abdominals and Thighs our hearts sped.

Our dear Sidhu Bhuyan at his teens

muscled in to the hearts of many queens

by strength of his brain, brawn, and beauty

unlike many of us, he was never a fickle nor naughty.

He married Kalpana whom all his friends adore

whom he loved from her infancy from his heart’s core

as his neighborhood girl from her nursery days

their conjugal life was cut short by the cruel lord from its blaze

Sidhu endured it with divine courage

desisting persuasions and his passions’ ravage

True love, devoted love, divine love for his sweetheart

will need a Kalidas and a Shakespeare to paint and art.

Dear Sidhu yesterday was your birthday

tomorrow you will be operated for your prostate’s dismay

Do not bother your Klpana from above and your friends allover

for the smooth operation and speedy recovery will be at their prayer.

Please surrender to the lord in whatever form you adore

to doctor’s knife, anesthesia’s spell you confidently ignore.

(Sidhu Bhuyan is my friend since 1965. He was a body builder and an engineer by profession. he had lost his wife. He is going to be operated. This poem is meant to encouraging him for tomorrow’s operation)