Sangram! Where are you?

Sangram! Where are you?

P K Routray

Sangram! Before a long painful year

three hundred sixty five dark nights earlier

snatched you away untimely by the cruel fate

at a premature age with incomplete targets you did set.

Time fails to move on the face of pang of separation

with increase in intensity of love and attachment, it does worsen.

For your daughter and mother even a moment of separation

looked once as ages as all of you used to stay in continuous communication.

As if on a sudden tour you have gone

after your tasks are complete you will return,

we along with your dearest daughter and madam look on,

you have gone to other world that as mortals we have forgotten.

The scripture tells us the soul is immortal “I”,

the body is the garment supposed to wear out and die.

After leaving the body either the soul merges with super soul

which is called liberation and is the soul’s ultimate goal

or It takes birth after birth with good deeds to improve upon one’s position

and from the penultimate position with best deeds one leaps for emancipation

Your past deeds are sure to have brought you this birth nearest step to liberation

Your role as Sangram with many noble deeds has been well done,

Either you must have merged with the ultimate, the super soul

or you must be one step below your final goal.

Author's Comments:
One year back I lost my close friend Sangram. One year will be completed on third May. He stays in my heart dat in day out.As per Hindu philosophy it is a search for him and his where about in this composition.
I beg apology for expressing my personal grief on this international forum. With diverse philosophy some friends may not like the posting. I beg their pardon.