ON A CLEAR, BLUE ,STARRY NIGHT….

On a clear, blue starry night

a star from the skies

reached my hands

to my embarrassment and surprise.

The warmth and vibrations

I felt inside my hands

I was at a  loss to know

what to do with the star

vibrating inside my grip.

When I was about to

throw away in the

backyards of my residence

I heard as if like an oracle  ‘my child, my dear child,

I am your beloved Dad

coming all the way from the skies

where life to me is virtually suffocating

breaking away the shackles I came down

straight into your hands

to spend my days with you, dear child’ –

-the familiarity of my Dad’s voice made me

weep like a child for some moments

unable to mutter anything

yet it seemed incomprehensible and unbelievable.

My mind went back to the green days

of my early childhood

when Dad and I in the moonlit starlit nights

walked along the courtyard

looking up to the moon and twinkling stars

those were days I cried for the moon and stars

not knowing it was something beyond

the capacity of my Dad.

I was recalling the days

he rained kisses galore

on my cheeks and he was love personified.

‘Dad I will never ever

throw away into the

backyards, instead you are

going to be with me the

rest of the days’ - assured I to my Dad

whose face was inscribed in it.

What about my kith and kin Dad?

If they could also come falling into my hands

It would have made us cheerful for ever’ - I was inquiring him

‘Son, I do not know

where they are  …

wherever they are they

too must be slugging out to break the chains

and come down into your hands’

‘Son, the laws of heaven are

more stringent than the

laws here on this earth.

Looking up from here I too once

felt like there all are in good spirits

but, no my son.’

On listening to his words

I was wondering the

ways of the heaven…………..