eSouvenir - Festival of Sorrow

Festival of sorrow

Dr. Dipak Kumar Sarma

Let's organise a festival

For those who passed away,

Festival is endless zeal

Store-house of joy,

A person's respiration

Where crusts of blood

Just have vanished or not

Come

Let's organise a condolence meeting

For those who left us,

It's a rule

Let's break the branches of sorrow

Collect a vessel full of nectar

And throw them all in hell

To the filth over

Come

Let's organise a festival

With the vessel full of nectar

To add an unique dimension to life,

Let's make a vivid journey,

From a sea full of sorrow

To a churning hive in midst of sea

From life to death

Death to life

Life to life

Death to death

'Uttisthito Jagrata'

Arise, awake and stop not

Friend, till the goal we get,

Life has neither the beginning

Nor the end

'Uttisthito Jagrata'

Note: Uttisthito Jagrata' - These words are from the verse number 14 of 'Kathopanishada' . The meaning is - Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

P.S. : This poem is translated from an original Assamese poem.

Dr. Dipak Kumar Sarma is a surgeon, poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist and a non fiction writer. He writes mostly in Assamese language. He is presently working as Professor of Surgery and HOD of Emergency Medicine Department in Gauhati Medical College Hospital, Guwahati.