Dear Uncle Eapen

It feels like just yesterday I saw you smiling, and talking in whispering notes, and it's today that you marked your new journey. The news that brought tears to my eyes, and you made me remember, what it was like to cry. Aghast I am that, never again to you, I will say hello. It was hard to see you in eternal sleep, clad in white, covered in flowers. Yet my heart still says, you would always stay around. Your voice so subtle, yet your wisdom and thoughts so profound. Now you in that heavenly place, on the wings of the heavenly dove, soaring so high above. As today you parted away in silence and tears, to disembody for a new journey, broken and shattered I am, I regret never saying how much I love you, and in silence, I grieve. Let me cry myself to sleep at night, and pray that Jesus keeps your soul at peace. Now and forever, you will be the one I always admired. ©Chitra Arun (* In the memory of my beloved Uncle Eapen, who now rests peacefully in the heavenly abode)