A Knot Divine

 

 

A Knot Divine

 

Golden Diamond and then platinum

Jubilee after jubilee will glitteringly come

on the floral path of the couple, benign

our pal Chitta and Sushama by God’s design.

Pray, we the Lord to bless their journey to sparkle

with health, and happiness to crown the couple.

We, Pradhan’s classmates from our Hearts’ core

over their GJ day on them our love and good wishers we pour.

Their GJ wedding day takes us to memory lane

reminiscing the customs and costumes that reign.

Hey Swastik!! Hey, our grandson

you may wonder at your grandma’s narration

on fifty years back, their wedding day celebration.

By hook or crook extract from her every titbit of it.

Hope her talk will continue till your son is in her armpit.

as it has Shakespearean sonnet and Moravia’s fiction

that will answer your query how can a saint have a son?

Smile snigger, roar you may, at the funny way of celebration.

But love not pre but post-marital with parental sanction

with all passions the creations had well run

you are ample proof of it., Hey grandson!

Propagate their sacrificial love and bondage with parental patronage

to your modern friends for whom such conjugal love is a mirage.

Chita was under parental pressure to marry

as a devoted son their desires, he could not parry.

To choose for him a bride,

searches went on far and wide

Girls at Baripada have captivating spell

as in intellect and grace others they excel.

Balasore and Baripada are towns adjacent

relationships have developed among them since time ancient

hence Susama was located at Baripoada lane

as a fork-clad gal in her early teens by search campaign.

Sushama won convincingly Chitta’s parental choice

Chitta was a silent spectator to act without raising a voice.

As if the marriage was negotiated and fixed in heaven

on the earth's crust, it was only made to happen.

Sushama! We Chitta’s friends swear, sure

with no obnoxious thoughts, Chitta remained pure.

we friends hankered after heroines, voluptuous

but immersed in study and work he remained virtuous.

You are lucky to have him as your partner

Sure, the Lord has sanctioned your prayer as a spinster.

Of course, we now fancy at then your plight

when with companions teenage girls play and fight

with frocks as wears of colors varied

broken  pot-piece  on the head, they carried

jumped over squares with their companions

on public streets, happily without hesitations,

wail while rolling on the floor

over the siblings to settle a score.

you also certainly enjoyed it as a teenage girl

Thoughts of adolescence in your brain could never whirl.

At that age your parents thought of parting with you

It must have been to you cruelly a bolt from the blue.

But parents are the best wishers of life

Remembering them mitigates our sufferings and strife.”

hey pals classmates and friends over six decades

let us together pay them our accolades.

Accolades for their half-century journey

shoulder to shoulder with conjugal harmony

treading over the thorny curved path, both in twine

braving the wrath from within, from nature, and forces divine

Hey Pals! Let us jump in joy and dance in frenzy and elation

forgetting the aches, physique, and doctors’ restriction

reminding but remodeling their wedding day celebration

from sawari palanquin and petromax illuminated procession

drum beats tunes of flute by band party with no DJ to roar

to plantain leaf dinner, enemas squatting on the floor

to this seven-star mouth-moistening drinks and dinner

with modernity, our fun together dies, never.

Envy we, those who attended their wedding day

but reminisce it, we, planting on it time’s a half century display.

Lost we all glazes of youth in our gesture and posture

with fake teeth, dyed hair we get the decades past pleasure.

to enrich a friend’s GJ day  aura beyond measure

Hey friend Chitta and Sushma the days you continue to treasure

fly back in practice and spirit to those dreamy days

with missing keys locked room, allow the youth to blaze.

Bless we Sangram and Itishree the boons granted to the couple

giving us a chance with your parents to joyfully assemble

to be a part of a joyous journey

of half a century that so soon flew

For your love and adoration to your parents, we bless you.

Age and time will rob our strength and vitality

You have proved to be God-gifted offspring to lend us stability.

Under veils long

as if hiding anything wrong

with bowed gait

in eyes tears in spate

as if everything is lost

in an earthly holocaust

to partner with a demon

with unimagined fun

Susama came to the altar

a barber maid holding her

with fancied garments and crown on the head

amidst drum beats and hymns, read

funny scenes to fancy at.

Susama! Can you reminisce about that?

the parting songs of melancholy melody

composed on the spot by your kith and kin need modern study

The lack of a beauty parlor then was a boon in disguise.

Certainly, on all fronts men then were wise.

The training and learning of the process

you had undergone please asses.

No drone existed to seize the event

today to see the scene our hearts lament./

Chitta was then waiting on the Altar

Furtively glancing to catch a glimpse if her

Now for them, it is a dream to float forever.

Hey, time! you are a thief and a cruel robber.
“ Susama! At nineteen seventy-four,

what was in your heart’s core?

pleasure, pain embarrassment,

or mixture at the life's embankment.

of marital life that you led after

adopting well walking shoulder to shoulder.

Susama! Please reminisce and elaborate on your then emotion

with Chitta’s sweet company that you have long forgotten.”

A life with a meager three-figure salary

with heat dust sound perils in the steel industry

daily getting soaked with dust and dirt from sinter

round-the-clock duty Chitta was paid for

spiring wants ever making the pocket empty

without aids man or machine Sushama had to do every duty.

Susama night have dreamt of a life with plenty of aids around

as In government employees she had found.

but instead found she, an old second-hand scooter

maddening her hubby  daily at the sound of plant hooter

Volumes on  Sushama’s plights we can write

Certainly, she contributed well to Chitta’s successful fight.

Together in life, the couple rose to every occasion

Chitta succeeded owing to, Sushama’s devotion.

from a  junior engineer of a steel complex

to be at  head NALCO being ast its apex

from a common Rengcolian seventy batch student

to an outstanding alumnus of the institute's achievement

Everywhere to Chitta, Ssushama lent her shoulder

a fifty years success story Sushama is always able to partner.

Rightfully Chitta’s success story stands as an illustration

for management study to fulfill a future manager's ambition.

But suggest I Sushama’s takes on Chitta’; a successful run

from behind and also on front she  must profess her contribution

Men and machines can not alone meet the target.

if the womenfolk behind the scenes they forget and neglect.

On this GJ day, we pay our gratitude to the couple, golden

for caring and sharing with us in this half-a-century run

while praying for the couple from the heart’s abyss

for them and their offspring health wealth and bliss

we congratulate the couple for such a harmonious journey

on a path not a bed of roses only but also arduous and thorny.

 

P K Routray

in the service of the Lord

 

It is composed in honor of Sushama & Chiita on the auspicious occasion of their 50^th wedding day)