When I Kept Feeling About The Rathayatra

There was a time When we use to line up To see the ratha Being drawn by devotees and worshippers, My mother, aunt, father, brother, All used to see the ratha Drawn, pulled With the deities But now too it is drawn and pulled, But they are not, I just see it msyelf all alone Going to the roadway, I am myself, They are not With none by me When is nobody else in the house And such a time comes too When one finds it lonly or becomes so As is the situation of life And when they were, There was a greater pleasure In seeing Jagannatha, Balabhadra and Subhadra, Our joy used to know no bounds, Our curiosity used to fly higher and highrer, But now they are not Sorry to say it today With pain in my heart To share my delight which I had once In to be with them, When never did death come to me afraid of With a heavy heart I remember the days gone by, With pain in my heart And the eyes getting soaked with, Wet with tears flowing silently The days of love, sympathy, bonding and affection, But whom to show them As who will understand it, I just weep in hiding And wipse out Averting the gaze of the world? .