BIJAYANANDA MISHRA

 

MELANCHOLY

Diamond spoon or gold, silver, tin,

Birth is no choice destiny sees keen,

The sojourn of spirit to the blue planet in guise,

Spirit carries only past deed, good or vice,

The seed of past desire effort service,

Refined in mold springs the same in life,

A spirit born in hamlet female at birth,

Treated as a curse to family sad in the earth,

Poverty denies cloths, education, friend,

Ill fate lead as domestic servant spend,

Hunger disease, uncertain future hunts,

In pain miseries, innocent smiles taunt,

Rarest these smiles if divine in guise,

The giggle, laughter twinkle puzzles precise,

 Birth with gold or silver for a girl child,

All in life, she enjoys, love care joy in mild,

Family traditions are chains drag all fun,

Conservative mind fear freedom in the run,

Lucky one escape the burden of confinement,

Soar in knowledge essence incandescent,

Human life in the family is sweet or sour,

Smiles fade to tears, luxury to cower,

Destiny follows karma good deeds past,

Spirit enjoys complete in life till last,

Deeds fetch reactions for the rest of life,

Female life passes till end butter or knife,

The diamond spoon girl child at birth,

The path of life is of rose musical earth,

The parent’s house in-laws abode alike,

Comfort, luxury richness desires drive,

Travel costumes assets servants many,

Sickness, loneliness, sadness feeling uncanny,

Consolations care love pour erases all,

Diamond child in life in pain sympathy troll,

Destiny puzzles incredibly where a smile is,

Sober silent female trusting friends miss,

Missing her husband children gone abroad,

Feathery bed, linen curtains, furniture load,

A call, servant attends to order plenty,

Destiny fails to find her wanting thirsty,

The female looks in void distant unblinking,

Destiny, in solitude silence, feels sinking,

Palatial abode abundant wealth and love,

All smiles, fun singing heart lusty eyes dissolve,

Ponder on eons the reasons she feels lonely,

Amidst maid, servant it smells melancholy,

 

Curtains raised fresh wind chills delicate frame,

Destiny now amused to fact melancholy tames,

A mother searches kids love brimming in heart,

Boarding school life busy study travels apart,

Husband comes in blue moon business travel,

In-laws abroad rarely visit gossip overseas novel,

Life is golden splendor jewel dazzles plenty,

The mind fails consolation seeks family thirsty,

None despise but adore mail chat at leisure,

Emotions molten refuse clipped in the freezer,

Solitude in the crowd in music noise a silence,

A perplexing scene melancholic eloquence,

 

The bell is ringing in nearby temple sweet,

A woman is crying to Lord cursed life tweet,

Tears are rolling incessant torn cloths in a sob,

Destitution, poverty, sickness happy-life rob,

Few kids young one husband at the gate looks,

Divine smiles in Krishna tauntingly hooks,

Destiny followed to hut in shock in miles,

The tide of joyous time children’s eyes smiles,

Melancholy does not rein the poor's cottage,

Destiny realizes divine serves lives a protégé,

Destiny down the curtain of the realm in mystery,

Divine tests with temptation, affluence, luxury,

Simple life, innocence, trust divine flow mercury,

The domain of melancholy watch marbles slippery.