If you hear me Jyoti, O my name sake !


With my humble soul,

My dear, I call your name !

I tried measure you fragility 

with the degree of your strength,

I tried to measure your strength

with the degree of your pain,

and your pain

with your resolve.....

All I find you standing

there strong, tall, above all !!

And then i imagined those 

for whom no word is formed,

never will be......

All I see 

they are shrinking 

into their ever growing hollowness!

I here can only talk,

I wont say that!

The day you emerged my dear,

you taught me how to

live and live even after !!


[Dedicated to Jyoti Singh Panday]

(12-3-2013)