Happy Diwali
Diwali is festival of lights of Hindus in India.This festival has a religious background
and celebrated all over India and outside also.The poet is sad on this day when this
festival is being celebrated all around, the crackers are let off and the lights are lit
on the terraces of the nearby houses there is joy and celebration all around but the
poet is sad deeply and missing his beloved for his beloved did not wish him on this most
joyful festival.
The poet here expresses here his feelings whatever he feels when he looks around himself
and remembers his beloved.
Blue,green,sparkling white,
make the sky as day bright,
earthen pitcher and candles light,
whole the town filled with spright,
Market,streets are over joyed,
men women tots enjoyed,
earth sky and even air,
seem to accompany wordly pleasure,
Poor and rich all alike,
exchange wishes loose their pride,
worship,prayers wishes are made,
to Rama,Ganesh and Lakshmi Goddess,
Lights are there all around,
pleasure, happiness seem to be bound,
dark is there in my heart deep,
filled with sorrow but cannot weep,
Lights I see putting on terraces,
adorn the townbut me embarraces,
glowing of lights,noise of crackers,
give me pleasure but I am averse,
In the glow of lights,
I see her face bright,
in the noise of crackers,
I feel her laughter,
The pleasure of the world,
like her happy converse,
whole the sparkling sky,
it seems me as her eyes,
Low sounds of prayer,
it seems as she utter,
in the wind- blown pitcher,
I feel as she murmer,
Lights are made to enlighten world,
no light is there to glow my heart,
the light to my heart, shadowed by her,
two words of "HAPPY DIWALI" she did not utter!
Copyright © Nischal Modi | Year Posted 2005
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