Why don’t you come over sometime? .
There’s your old boombox
Gathering dust atop the TV.
We could sing along to
Kishore or Kansas,
Or to Jingle Bells, if you fancy. .
There’s a photo of us
Sitting by my bedside,
It reminds me of those merry times
When I was the center
Of your protected, charmed life. .
I’ve saved the last wine
You gifted me on Mother’s Day.
It lies unopened,
Still swathed in its shimmery gauze,
Waiting for the perfect day. .
I’ll whip up your favourite cakes,
Nevermind that I’m diabetic.
Or would you prefer pakodas or kulfi?
I know you’re health conscious now.
I swear I have a guilt-free recipe. .
The phone doesn’t ring anymore.
No, I’ve paid the bills like I should.
It’s because you just text now and then,
And all the rest are dead,
But I keep hoping, still. .
You stopped coming over on weekends,
Then on holidays too,
And now altogether.
The last time I saw your bonny face,
Was on a magazine’s cover. .
I know you’ll never come back to stay
But your room’s always been ready for you,
As if you’re only out at school.
Should you ever want to come back,
You’ll feel like you never left home. .
There are times when I wonder
If my life is unfair;
That when you needed care
I was always there.
Yet in my twilight years, there’s no one here,
My cherished nest lies bare. .
No, I’m not complaining,
I understand
you have work in the city.
I just need some reassurance,
A call, a hello, a hug, from time to time,
A reminder of my only family. .
So, won’t you please cover over sometime;
Tell me that you still care,
Or pretend to,
just for old times’ sake?
These arms, they seek
your comforting hug,
Before it is too late.
.
In memory of my grandparents, wherever they may be...
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#poetry #grandparents #mourning #loss #poetsofinstagram #instapoetry
And a prisoner of our own mind.
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True that.
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Yeah. We are.
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Unfortunately 😔
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Can we do anything about it?
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Nope. Not a thing. Just keep doing what you do, that’s all we can do
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Great Reminder Pradita.
Good to see you after sometime
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Thanks KJ. Yes, it’s been sometime. I’ve been busy with other things. How about you?
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I am good Pradita. Thank you
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Good to know that 😊
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Also of the expectations of our & others.🙂
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Oh, don’t even get me started on that but yes, you’re right.
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Yes.
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Well said
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Thank you 😊
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Welcome 😊🌷
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Very beautiful post………….
We can do what is in my hands. Perhaps that is why it is said in the Gita that you do not worry about the consequences only because it is not in your hands.The result is subject to destiny and we all are not born free, we are prisoners of destiny.
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Excellent explanation Sir. We can only try to make our lives what we’d like them to be. But the end result is never in our hands. Thank you for reading 😊🙏
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How do you come up with such gems?
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You’re the archive person to ask me that. I ascribe it to experience. 😁
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How powerful! Freedom comes at a price and that’s the saddest part.
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That’s true. So does life, and its cost is our lifetime of hardships and sadness 😦
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Neither we are born free, nor can we live free. Very well said Pradita.
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Thanks a lot
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I like this one but I’m not sure I fully believe it. I think of destiny less like a destination (you will end up happy, you will have a lawyer, you will have an unhappy relationship) and more like a river we are floating down. Some places the current is strong and we only just work to stay afloat. Other times, we can affect our direction a little. We are definitely going downstream, but we can dodge rocks, find comfortable spots to rest, and avoid eddies that keep us going in circles. If we paddle more we will get used to it and get better at navigating the stream. If we say “what will happen is already determined” we will take whatever the river gives us – and sometimes that means we will be smashed on the rocks before we fully get started.
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Todd, thank you so much for discussing this at length. I really appreciate it.
You are right in certain ways and I too agree that there may be instances when we can affect the way our lives are turning out. But when I think of all those times when nothing seems to go the way I’d like it, or those instances when I have had to give up on things because there’s no way around it, I feel things are predetermined for us humans. Some of us end up doing things or being what they had never imagined themselves to be. It’s in such situations when ‘destiny’ feels like a solid thing steering us in whichever direction she wants.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that we should let it all go. Lord knows if our efforts mean anything at all at the end of our lives, but that’s all we can do – try. The rest isn’t in our hands.
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Definitely – there are some parts of our future we can’t escape. To use my river analogy, those things are reachable by branches we’ve already passed or on a different river entirely. The trick is telling those things that are difficult apart from those that are not attainable at all. Some of our best goals are those that, at first glance, seem unattainable but just required a whole lot of work.
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I agree with you. We’d have a lot less heartache and tears if we knew ‘the trick’ of differentiating between what’s difficult from what’s unattainable, but we’re only human 😊
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