We eulogize our parents, kneel before teachers,
Pay obeisance to idols, and praise every benefactor…
Write poetry on our love, lyrics to our heart-throb,
Elegies in the heartache, play Endymion for a Selene,
And make rainbows out of our pale inane existence.
But when it comes to thanksgiving, some never figure out on the list,
And of those, we are prudent, tongue-tied, or grossly inadequate.
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Connate with this corpus from conception
Oh my senses and sensors! You have made me what I am.
But for you I would never have travelled the distances I had,
Nor perceived and indulged in this spectacular world, oh, me!
It grieves to leave, yet a new stint is equally tempting.
And before I am dragged out of this house reluctantly
And watch dumbly, you being impaled and consigned
Let me thank you with all my heart, dear senses and dear limbs!
And as a tribute to you dear frame, I shall leave behind the name!
*24.7.2012
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