My Darling Dad Poem by SANDHYA REGMI

Lively undying turf you are
Of my life's garden of flowers
An embodiment of dogged determination
Invincible courage and persistency
Uprooted even and flung anywhere
you resurrect with equal vibrancy
With roots and boughs intact and alive
Tender shoots of cultural eminence
Untiring patience and endurance
Living landmark you are standing aloft
Of sweet elevating blessings anew
Worthy decoration of life's long quest.
Lotus of magnetic comeliness
Aroma of amazing exuberance
You are a bloom elegant
A smile so eloquent
Rarity of earth unparallel
You are a gem, a lone fighter
Much alike a lotus in a muddy water
Omnipresent and powerful
Source of infinite light and life
Incinerated in cauldron High up in the sky
You guide people from down under
From darkness to light.
Adored as a martyr
For ever and ever
You are an eternal source of inspiration
Of high ideals and renunciation.
Sacrificed everything you have
Braving bullets and bayonets
Enthused and enlivened many
Celestial evergreen and immortal
You are constant and unruffled
An undivided whole
Embedded deeply in reverence and trust
transformed you as a great soul
Emerged out from sentient creatures.
Everlasting and indestructible
The highest being you are
Unshaken and undivided
Securely settled on foundation firm
Of granite's trust and reliance
You are the creation par excellence
From sublime sentient souls.

translated MB Pradhan