ON THE PATH OF GAIN
Dear Angel,
I’m sorry for the earth & sky
You shared alone.
I’m sorry for the air
You breathed alone.
I’m sorry for the flowers you touched,
And the games you played alone.
I earned a lot,
Achieved the goals
Beyond my dreams,
Touched the horizons of success,
But all without you , my love.
In a trance of trampling success
I forgot you’re a part of me,
I forgot you’re in me.
Not only that,
I forgot the days
When I told you to brush your teeth,
Helped you to get dressed,
And go to school.
When we went to park
You holding my finger & walked
The green patches of our grassy lawn.
I’m very sorry to say
I have seen you grow
All alone in my presence
With your west-ward emotions
Full of breezy lull.
I missed your first day at school,
First football match,
Your Halloween Parade
And many more.
Now they are countless to write,
Countless to read.
Dear doll,
In your suffering
I too have suffered
By allowing my priorities over my relationship
All at the cost of globetrotting job.
This I could know
A year ago
When I asked you to remember
What you missed
When I was away.
You asked me to wait,
Went to your room
And came with a piece of paper,
And handed me a list of 22 events
Surely important one for you,
Important one for me.
List of events & activities you compiled .
Both you & I missed
Due to my so called commitments.
Surely it was a wake-up call!
Excuses apart
Each missing events
Weighed heavy upon me,
My tours , travels & meets.
But I was sure enough now
By doing so I have missed
A thread of life & love.
It deeply hurts to know
I allowed my relations
To ride on unruly waves
Of misleading commitments.
Work may be worship
But not at the cost of you.
Now I’m with you
Binding knot to knot
And kissing every smile.
(Rajiv kumar/29/09/2014)
