SILK THREAD

 

SILK THREAD

 

Divine purpose, love, and graceful,

Delicate fingers, Lord created soft,

Created muscular frames for a male,

Attractive, the feminine loves a face,

Feminine beauty is round and smooth,

Attractive, sight resembles a flower,

Divine wish flower is colored, fragrant,

From far honey bees detects the smell,

Searches male heart partner, a cycle,

Procreation, divine will, world exists,

Family in existence grows civilization,

Parents in generation forming a clan,

Children linking parents divide links,

Thread, a lineage of hierarchy distinct,

Link through marriage to a different one,

A daughter will be daughter-in-law,

Finds the girl child a heritage noble,

The mother of a family of her husband,

Sons continue with their families,

A girl, through marriage, gets her home,

How many events, functions passed,

Family remembers every detail,

Birth, death, and marriages  predominate,

Relationships widen through generation,

Find the thread entwined inter-mingled,

I was searching the silk thread sacred,

Relationship between a brother and sister,

Siblings, the same fruits of a branch,

A girl gets married, leaves her home,

Leave parents, parents-in-law is reality,

Brother stays, keeps the link alive,

Protects sister through up and down,

Attends her family ceremonies,

Uncle, a beautiful presence in respect,

Mother's brother still families linked,

A silk thread ties to the brother's hand,

The ceremony is an important festival,

Establishes sacred relationships,

Females think of a brother as a protector

Thread a woman's life in case of widowhood,

Untimely, the death of her husband happens,

The silk thread keeps sinking life afloat,

The softest feeling tying thread,

With oil-lit lamp sweets on a plate,

Worship sister, her brother, love in heart,

In return gets a new dress, sweets,

Taunts elder brother and demands money,

I have seen in life relationships,

Relationships with parents, elders,

Relationships with kin many,

Relationship with better half prime,

A bond between brother and sister,

A silk thread represents soft love,

True friendship growing to the age,

Memorable listless events or fun,

Countless cut-offs, friendships re-tied,

Fear sister to confess before a parent,

Easily confides to brother reminds,

Never to disclose her secrets a faith,

Reverse the story truth is kept secret,

His sister's heart stored his confession,

Note childhood pain, mistakes, love,

Innumerable desires, failure, sis knows,

Never let parents know to save punished,

Elder sister, a second mother guides,

Reminiscence of her departure, wedding,

Heartbroken a time, sis is missing,

Accompanies her to her in-law's home,

Heavenly love, a silk thread tied in hand.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra