AFTER
FATHER SLEPT NEVER TO WAKE UP EVER......
Oh! In a fathomless ocean of tumult and turmoil
I was predestined to be born to toil,
Without an indispensable oar to sail.
Ah! Too fierce and violent was the marine gale.
The adversity waves were surging above the head
The signal light was ever red ahead,
The poor keel below was ever tossing and unstaid
Peace was a reverie, reality was dread!
The sustenance was too salty to swallow
The treasury of happiness was ever hollow,
Sleeps were stolen by the bitter, buffeting bellows
Anxiety ever murmured, “Ah! What next follows!”
But, a miraculous Divine glimpse altered the ambience
Tempests subsided, tides ebbed. Oh! joy did embrace
As the battered and bruised ship kissed the joyous shore
Ah! Welcomed a refreshing dawn with gaiety galore!
Scared lips still do
quiver, and tense tongue still does waver
How to thank, praise and eulogize God, the Merciful Saviour
Who was the only generous Guide, circumstances whatsoever
Alas! After Father slept prematurely never to wake up
ever!
N.B: The poet’s father had breathed his last untimely in
his forties leaving behind his widowed wife, three sons and a daughter. At that
time the poet was one and half years only.
* fathomless – immeasurable/ very deep
* tumult – uproar/violent and noisy commotion or
disturbance
* turmoil – a state of great commotion, confusion or
disturbance,
* to toil - to work hard
* indispensable oar - essential
*oar – pole with a flat blade used for rowing the boat
through the water [here, help]
* fierce and violent - severe and cruel
* marine gale - oceanic strong wind [here bitter
circumstances]
* adversity waves – hardships/ misfortunes
* surging - rising and falling
*keel – timber or steel structure on which the framework
of a ship or airship is built
* reverie – daydream
* sustenance - food
* tossing and unstaid – unsteady/beyond balance
* treasury – place where treasure or money is store [Here,
happiness is compared to a treasury]
* hollow – empty
* buffeting– beating/striking hard
*bellows – here, roaring waves
* anxiety – nervousness due to fear
* murmured – whispered/ talked softly
*miraculous unbelievable
*Divine glimpse –
God’s kind look
* altered the ambience – changed the situations
* tempests subsided - storms fell down/stopped
* tides ebbed – high waves receded/went back/withdrew
* battered and bruised ship - weather-beaten and injured
ship [here, wounded and injured life]
* gaiety galore - cheerfulness in great quantities
* quiver – shake
*waver – falter/ hesitate
*eulogize - praise excessively
* generous – extremely kind
* slept prematurely – expired untimely [Here, a figure of
speech called ‘euphemism’ is used, i.e, a harsh truth of death is expressed in a mild tone like slept.]
©Shankar D Mishra 19.06.2017
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