This one moved me. It says everything and some more. Well written Anjali. It's beautiful.
https://paruvuanjali.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-tree-has-fallen.html
 |
| Feeding her ajji mango ice cream! |
The tree has fallen
- Anjali Paruvu, December 21, 2020
The tree has fallen, the tree has fallen
The strong, solidity of support
Whose worth no one realized
Until it shut its eyes
Even as she lay at her death bed
Few of many came to pay their respect
While a few toiled and toiled
But this is not their story, mind
The spirit it never died down
As the body went on shutting down
The new teenager cried and cried
In silence, as she had to help
Those in worse situations than herself
She listened patiently to the stories she previously refused
And had let go of her ego and pride
She fed her spoons of mango icecream
In hopes of coming in her dreams
She had never imagined that the tree, which was always there,
would one day fall in the pit of despair
Even in the time of weakness and pain
She tried to put a smile on her face
She expressed her love through her actions
As she couldn't brave to speak to the mighty
Then one day, there was no tree
To play cards with or ask lovely stories
She initially could not process
That the body in front of her would not wake
To see the dawn of the new day
She didn't seem to understand
Looking so numb and sad
That her last day with her had passed
And the tree had breathed its last
She had never forgotten her face
Full of pride and happiness
When she brought home a medal that hung across her neck
She could not forget the stories galore that made her who she was
She would not forget her eccentricities and her iron will which nothing could penetrate
She could not forget these days she spent, holding the one who first held her
She could not forget the love she felt and regretfully had not expressed
But now, what is the use, of wishing she was back on Earth
'She is in a better place' they said
But what if I want her, here, with me?
'Who is your role model ?' they asked her at 9 years old
Emma Watson she wrote
Now the young teen of today
Weeped in her hands, thinking of the greatest
role model in front of eyes that she had
The tree has fallen, the tree has fallen
The strong, solidity of support
Whose worth no one realized
Until it shut its eyes
Even as she lay at her death bed
Few of many came to pay their respect
While a few toiled and toiled
But this is not their story, mind
The spirit it never died down
As the body went on shutting down
The new teenager cried and cried
In silence, as she had to help
Those in worse situations than herself
She listened patiently to the stories she previously refused
And had let go of her ego and pride
She fed her spoons of mango icecream
In hopes of coming in her dreams
She had never imagined that the tree, which was always there,
would one day fall in the pit of despair
Even in the time of weakness and pain
She tried to put a smile on her face
She expressed her love through her actions
As she couldn't brave to speak to the mighty
Then one day, there was no tree
To play cards with or ask lovely stories
She initially could not process
That the body in front of her would not wake
To see the dawn of the new day
She didn't seem to understand
Looking so numb and sad
That her last day with her had passed
And the tree had breathed its last
She had never forgotten her face
Full of pride and happiness
When she brought home a medal that hung across her neck
She could not forget the stories galore that made her who she was
She would not forget her eccentricities and her iron will which nothing could penetrate
She could not forget these days she spent, holding the one who first held her
She could not forget the love she felt and regretfully had not expressed
But now, what is the use, of wishing she was back on Earth
'She is in a better place' they said
But what if I want her, here, with me?
'Who is your role model ?' they asked her at 9 years old
Emma Watson she wrote
Now the young teen of today
Weeped in her hands, thinking of the greatest
role model in front of eyes that she had
No comments:
Post a Comment