You Know Ganesha! Poem by Chhavi Anupam

Ganesha you are bountiful
benevolent,
generous, so kind,

You give
You shower,
everybody’s prayers

howsoever petty,
You answer,
open-handed.

They rejoice
when they see you,
their faces

and spirits
beam/gleam
in delight.

What I watch
with awe is
when they

carry you on them,
for immersion
after week-long

festivity,
you seem
to enjoy

that ride
reveling…as if you’re
a small child

being taken
on a piggy-back
joy ride,

your face smiles
in each facet
contented and satisfied

looking forward to
the immersion,
happy,

please Ganesha
give me the boon
that I too smile

the same smile
when they carry
me for the final immersion,

they know
that they will
find you back

in the spark of the
sanctum sanctorum
from where they

picked you up,
but you please immerse
me in your Spark

I do not want to return,
Come on this should not
be hard for you,

may be it is
after all amidst all
the delirious screaming

my humble prayers
fail to reach you,
and you do not care

You are happy
to see everyone
but you avoid my eye,
because
in the heart of your hearts
You know

that I am
smiling
but in my

heart there is
despair,
despair!