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Our Souls Dwell Forever

 

Four hundred days have gone by since your departure

Thou art always in all my thoughts like my own nature

No one can ever keep thee hidden from my sight any more

Many a morn and eve I hear your footsteps coming ashore

Thy soul has come within my heart and given me happiness

I know not why my life is all shattered living with emptiness

Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers

On many an idle day haven’t I grieved for my loss for hours

When I feel tired of waiting I retire to sleep on my idle bed

There I dream of all the fond memories you and I have had

In the morning when I wake up I find all emptiness around

There isn’t a pretty lotus in the pond and the sweet sound

All are gone but not forgotten I have a lot to celebrate now

I have treasured all your memories but I do not know how

All I know that I still love you and continue to do so forever

In my hope that the souls of Lakhan and Saroj dwell forever

 

Treasure Her Memories

 

O God ask the sky to open up but shower a blessing

Let the drizzle be so light that her arrival is pleasing

 

When she is with me let the sky pour the heaviest rain

So that she finds it hard to leave me in the pouring rain

 

That would be an additional pleasure to extend my age

Her eyes would be my mirror to see more of my image

 

 

Let her pretty face keep twinkling in my eyes forever

Let my love be blissful and forgiving like a true lover

 

Let there be no disturbance and no one to bother

Let me feel the joy of my life come to me together

 

My hugs and kisses for my sweetheart should hold her

Let me extend my love to persuade her and hold her

 

To love and to treasure her would be my only pleasure

Let no lightning and thunder spoil my lovely pleasure

 

Beauty and lovers have been at loggerheads always

Let me strike a balance and honour both as always

 

I made a solemn prayer that she should be all mine

I did this because this was a responsibility of mine

 

How fortunate was I when she consented to my love

For years we created a family that was full of our love

 

I now regret that I couldn’t look after my treasure well

Nature took her away so soon to make me feel unwell

 

Life would have been easier for me if we had never met

I wouldn’t be lonely suffering my pain and sorrow, I bet

 

Now that the unthinkable has happened and she is gone

I’ll  treasure all her fond memories from dusk to dawn

 

That was how well my pretty lotus, my life and my dear wife

Groomed me well for fifty five years and enriched my life

 

No one has ever known our secret recipe for life and living

It was our instinctual love that made our life worth living

 

My people will love and cherish the life we proudly spent

Just a rose on our mantle would provide us the right scent.

Ram Lakhan Prasad, 26th August 2014.