BHARATHI

BHARATHI
Bharathi the daughter of Bharat
The fragile palm of your right hand
Clutched on the window frame rod
Tightly for the fear to be taken off
By the tides that took away with it
Dearest of dears to you and many like you
Father, mother, brother, sister and entire dear
Taken away to make orphans to wail alone
Entire life with tearful memoirs to avail

We look at your eyes that glow
Hopefully to rear you to be normal
See the furious sea in them raging
With tears and fears wavering filled
What are there to fear my dear when
We are there with you to share and bear?
Hopes and whoops of you reveal real
Like the calmness of sea that ceded
Come to the calmness of your mind

Accept the fate and recede to believe
Your life that need to be heaved among
Hearts of kindness extended to you
Rely on almighty, He safeguards you
Remember Bharathi, tsunami made a plan
For Bharathi’s sisters and brothers to join
Under the roof of one home of love.
One father and one mother you had
But Tsunami gave you lot of them now

God has plans on you to be accomplished
Lot of them as your parents wished
You are to accomplish them bravely
We are to accompany you to move on
You are our dear daughter in love
Catch our hands and hold your hopes
Let us move forward to a brighter world
Let us start, let us move, and let us rove
Relieve and recover from fear and tear to revive

ANNIE JOSEPH
Inspired by a photo clipping in Indian Express during the Tsunami disaster in India.
This I am posting now for Dhanya in reply to her post “Orphaned” in the blog Ruminations.