THE MANSION
Looking
like a ghost for hours,
Our
house symbolized powers,
Famous
for the title house letters,
Far-off
cities knew story hears, (1)
The
grandfather, landlord, royal,
A
hundred men loved to pray vocal,
Kind-hearted,
merciful, famous,
Serving
people education focus, (2)
Thousand
acres of land produce,
Bountiful
harvest pride induces,
Father
got an education in Britain,
The
scholarship degrees, retain, (3)
Matched
famous like his father,
Barrister,
won cases to prosper,
His
name spread over the state,
Brick
house multi-storied date, (4)
Much
published or well-known,
His
title of name house is shown,
Name of
the building, his title,
A few
flock court cases belittle, (5)
After
the independence family,
Siblings
studied in the city simply,
Home
education preferred job,
Our
time, a century after, throb, (6)
Prosperous
the Country stories,
Lost a
hundred acres to miseries,
Sad,
lost revenue, annual crop,
Landless
prefer career, develop, (7)
Three
brothers and two sisters live,
Father
living in the building, we leave,
We left
one by one our job lead,
Marriage
for sisters once bread, (viii)
Left
the home parent stay alone,
Stood
for centuries our mansion,
No more
parents alive the sight,
We
siblings reach years twilight, (9)
Difficult
to maintain the house,
Broken
roofs collapsing rouse,
Once
was a prime location lonely,
City
moved for miles us solely, (10)
Our
children migrated equally,
Settle
overseas, live permanently,
The
mansion now silent stories,
Yet
know detail future worries, (11)
Thinking
of mortgaging the mansion,
It will
be bulldozed, say caution,
We lost
our lands, then decision,
Mansion
where lived generation, (12)
Losing
our legacy cried time tell,
Erases
everything memory yell,
Finalize
the cost of the mansion,
Sold to
the person bought won, (13)
Sold
for nothing yet money link,
The
British glass wood life sink,
Mosaic
floor Italian marble a lot,
I could
know very soon, be dust. (14)
Pen:
Bijayananda Mishra
Title
of Poem: The Mansion
Themes:
Once famous sold dilapidated
Written:
16th December 2023, Cuttack
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