The First Time Grandfather

I have been waiting for this day since the moment my daughter announced she's on the family way. Today my granddaughter smiled at me and with that, she filled with happiness my day, my life worth living. She said to me, "gu…guu…gu" which I translated to myself as "I love you, grandpa" in ecstacy, I closed my eyes. I picked her up and sang "Omanathingal kidaavo….." in a voice coarse enough to wake up a child fast asleep. But, it was music sweetest for her, she slept in my arms in no time, fully confident as if she were in her mother's womb. When our daughter was small I had no dreams for her, but just tried to tell her what and how to dream, and work hard to fulfill it, For my little Tasha, I wish she would live a life rich in compassion, ease the burden of fellow beings at least a few, but not in riches, surpass Bill Gates. And achieve all that she dreams. She reads my mind in her sleep maybe, and smiles reassuringly with a million rainbows she adorns my tiny greyish cloudless sky. Note: "Omanathingal kidaavo…..": ഓമനത്തിങ്കൾക്കിടാവോ... The famous lullaby in Malayalam written by poet Irayimman Thampi. It is said that he had written this lullaby for the newborn prince Swathi Thirunal, who later became the Maharaja of Travancore.