NAMEPLATE

 

NAMEPLATE

 

 

Think a lot about existence, savor,

Think a lot, departures devour,

Think a lot possesses position,

Think a lot, assets destruction, (1)

 

Think a lot about qualifications, titles,

Think a lot, scorn like belittles,

Sleeping on a hospital bed, think,

Life on a whisker whisper sink, (2)

 

Birth and a cry of happy tears lit,

Celebrate a name designated fit,

That bracketed, clan race root,

Fragile was the frame barefoot, (3)

 

Walk school college university,

Books in hand dress intensity,

Only the thought of achieving it,

Degree, certificate, name exist, (4)

 

The school knew the name college,

University degrees knowledge,

Hot tear trickled name known,

World underfoot retired frown, (5)

 

Sight of the cremation ground,

Floated before life cry resound,

The career, post, and offices remind,

Nameplate designation rewind, (6)

 

Hundreds of guest officers lot,

Chatted queued for time effort,

Mattered meetings proceeding,

copy circulated time exceeding, (7)

 

A signature, name designation,

Empowers order, obeys motion,

Simple a nameplate designation,

Enough to circulate order warn, (viii)

 

Where am I on a bed, name lost,

Retired in life hanged boot post,

Lost high position, status ivory,

Human life flashback, memory, (9)

 

Worn-out signboard wooden tilt,

In front of the house, lifetime enlist,

Alive thanked survived an accident,

God's grace life refasten resident, (10)

 

Glittering brass letters, a board,

Back home, cherish second odd,

I moved subconsciously out back,

Nameplate invites me to the track, (11)

 

The thin line between life and death,

Nameplate, adds Late at length,

My bedroom bed engrossed felt,

Lifetime a name ceremony dealt,(12)

 

Added degree, title position hell, 

Twilight Years nameplate derail,

Remember, generation after love,

Ever nameplate matches above, (13)

 

A unique unbiased conclusion crept in, 

Slept on my bed, prayed a lot, wept,

Fortunate million lives nameless,

Nameplate to namesake baseless, (14)

 

Neither recorded recognized stay,

I was praying Nameplate dismay,

It carries my identity, the world knows,

Minus a nameplate never to bow. (15) 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Nameplate

Themes: Name, degree, position, address 

Written: 3rd December 2023, Cuttack

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