Dear Reader
My next poem "The never fading smile" is dedicated to my
brother who I lost just a few months back to cancer.
My brother Savney was a fighter right from the beginning. He was a
born champion always eager to win. He was a perfectionist, he excelled at
whatever he did by sheer hard work and dedication. By all his hard work and
discipline he earned the back belt in karate. He published his own book; a
collection of poems. He had his own blog and many other medals to his belt – a
young achiever. Most of all he was selected as the best NCC cadet all over
India and made us all proud. But the most priced procession of all was his
smile which lightened his face and which melted our hearts. Why a young man of
this caliber had to suffer under the such a deadly disease is the question
which I have no answers to.
Even when he was suffering from cancer he was a brave man, like a
brave soldier he fought the disease. No matter how much pain he suffered no
matter how much medication and tests he had to go through he stood up bravely
against all odds and faced with with a broad smile.
Alas they day came when he
had to leave us. Alas I could not do anything to save him. But even when he
last spoke to me and waved me goodbye on his deathbed, he had that smile on his
face.
We’ll miss you Savney, wish you could read this.
The never fading smile
That broad smile of yours
Painted to perfection
Flashing from ear to ear
Drawing our affection
Ambitions high at the peaks
Hoisting the colours of pride
Ready to brave the odds
Ready to fight the tide
Cuts and wounds you never cared
Always striving hard for excellence
Always flew with victory, coz
Best you where at what you did
We danced to the life’s music
Stepping to its melody, happily
But fate chose differently, trying
To fade your smile forever
Challenges thrown you braved them
Pains suffered; not complaining
Focused your thoughts to one thing
Patiently waiting for the cure
The day came when the smile faded,
But not yours but of us
For years as we keep you alive,
Your smile will remain with us.
