Tribute to Granddad

(If you are reading this from somewhere up above, this is for you.)

 

Confronting woe by yourself

All the petulance you threw.

We did our finest to help

Tricky to envisage what life put you through. 

You were so firm and rigid

Willpower couldn’t rip you apart
Though, in the face of what we did

We somehow knew, ceaselessly life doesn’t last 

Memories, not just a few

Your toothless grin is missed by us.

You would have known that I loved you.

Had I let you know how much, merely once! 

Living in pride

The numbness withheld me

You strangely took it in your stride

And allowed me as you loved me 

Sometimes it’s better not to let go

Of an event to adore

The best minute is now,

The best time to love. 

The last time I saw was when you smiled

The moment you fruitfully battled the surgery

However, I am glad you weren’t there to see me cry
When He one day irrevocably derelict your agony! 

The heavens cried those days

Monsoon had just made a start

Water drenched our faces

The day when you breathed your last. 

I took for granted you were strong

We thought you’d make it right through whatever

As we longed for nothing to go wrong

It’s just arduous to deem that you have left us forever!
 

 Dedicated to all those who lost someone special in their life recently.

Specially goes out to the eldest person in my family who I lost few weeks ago.