Elegy for a Student

by Prof. Dr. Anil K. Prasad

The Green City

Has turned gray,

The moon is drained out

Of her colour,

The house is shattered,

Shocked are the people,

The relatives, the stars

The friends, the fraternity

As you suddenly stopped

Breathing with the sudden

Arrest of the muscles

In your heart.

In cold winter nights

A mother moans,

Bewailing the loss:

The beloved daughter

Has departed:

So loving, and caring,

And self-effacing;

A noble soul!

“God loves those, die young,”

Does not give relief

To the sister whose eyes

Have been swollen-red

Since you departed, and

Those when heard about

The unexpected end:

Their world missed

A thousand heavens.

The only solace is this

That you are always there

Even in your absence

You are the air that

Moves around them

Invisible, you are

The fragrance that

Is not seen

But lingers even

After the flower

fades away.

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