A Regret

A Regret

 

A visit

to exhibit

our goodwill

to instill

confidence

the essence

to rejuvenate

an ailing classmate

with battered emotion

is a courtesy common

Such visits, we never miss

our heyday, we reminisce.

often doctors also permit

to lit his patient’s spirit.

Contagion or infection

never blocked such union

As and when friends suffer

from cold cough and fever

to him nothing looks right

friends’ presence makes it light

To boost his morale recovery

Friends make fun and mockery

that lightens his tensions

on diagnostic apprehensions

Umpteen such occasions

we pals enjoyed unions

thus life for us had so far run

more than seventy years of fun

Alas! Such a visit of goodwill

with all its warmth and thrill

over an hour or so

with two hearts’ show

friendship was on full blast

over six decades of glorious past

their love and hate story

with a hilarious minute recovery

moments envied heavenly beings

on earthly man it is His blessings

wishing to meet over an early treat

cut short unwillingly then I, my meet.

on the corridor

met his son elder

remorse soaked

throat choked

to tell  the report

as a thunder bolt

disease has spred

reports thus read.

with the wails of his son

with heart broken head spun

a tallish man I searched in vain

shall I return to him again

will it not raise his doubt

his heart his losing thre bout?

on the spur of the moment

cherish9ing the time spent

left I with pinching regret

drowned in friendship debt.

A haunt’ me it will never quit

an d a regret daily in me repeats