THANK YOU

Thank you – my parents

For giving a body for this soul

For teaching how to live life as a whole

Thank you – my teachers

For showing the way to academic salvation

For kindling the fire of greater materialistic aspiration

Thank you – my childhood friends

For making my day in the playground

For making sure that my childhood dreams don’t run aground

Thank you- my sweetheart in college

For nipping my romance in the bud

For bringing me back to the earth with a thud.

Thank you – my dear wife

For giving a structure to my life

For making sure that life moves on, come bliss or strife.

Thank you – my progeny

For giving me a mid-life missive

For reminding me that I also have my own life to live.

Thank you- O God

For giving life of fine elements
For filling my life with parents, teachers, friends, family and all such determinants

Thank you – my life
For filling me with incessant indictment
For making me realize that all the above are hallucinations, and, at best, transient.