Now No Qualms As I Am Content! Poem by Krishna Baalu

Dear!

I ‘m through the pages of life!
My rendezvous with days
Concluded!
My odyssey of life
Reached the summit

Now glancing the bibliography!

To check my self from where I got
My wisdom and cherished values
My failures and faux pas,

But sure of that SUN rise
Every other morning
But not of myself that I woke up for sure!
And worship the SUN

But

Always with optimism
Kept thanking SUN
For well over 80 years!

I spent life
Between good and bad
Evil and devil
Tired of
Preaching merits and demerits to my daughters
Imparting discipline on to my boys

And got flattened between
Emotions and relations!

And got dejected and elated
Between failures and success

There is no certainty in the world
But order in life;
There is no assertion in life
But steadiness in the world

When my off springs flew away
I shared the rest of
My life
With my partner
And enjoyed her companion
More than in my primes

The divinity she had
No one can reinstate
The fondness she had
No one can fulfill

When I lost her
I almost flew with her
But had to heave the life farther
To pay reverence to the Almighty

Now no qualms
As I m content
Now no alms
As I am Gentle!

Now content with this little
To satiate my stomach
This treasure before me
To satiate my smarts!

Thanks Lord!
for giving life to my soul
for putting me through the odyssey

yours truely
A son of GOD

(This is my entry for Raja Ramachandra's contest)