I
Stillness in the air, and the pretending tranquility.
It is the calm before the expected emotional storm.
Fluxing its muscles, with the agonizing thoughts.
II
Reality of life; a divorce and family split apart.
Snatching the control of children, anger rules,
Designing ways and means to hurt former spouse.
III
Children in the middles, brainwashing begins,
Filling lies in their heads, and contempt for father,
The new life begins with ever smoldering amber.
IV
Time passes and son grows, not knowing his dad.
Loving and worshiping the wealthy uncles and aunts
Unsuccessful in life to accumulate wealth, a dad lives.
V
Learned to face lone life, he watches from a distance,
Son he heard getting married, still known by family-name.
Is this cruelty of fate, or a scheme of vengeance of the Gods?
VI
Daughter in law arriving, and he is not there welcoming.
The tranquility of mind, he thought was his strength,
Crumbling down, it appeared to him, in this storm.
VII
I must get away from this ominous emotional wind.
Let go of the relations, which were never meant to stay,
If the stillness of mind desires, and then leave past behind.
VIII
"Is this the only solution?" The listening alter ego asked.
"Pains and suffering my attachment to memories caused'
Like Siddhartha of Hermann* Hess, I must follow my path".
IX
Leaving behind in the past, -wife, son, and in-laws,
Friends and kinfolks, live with you when gravy is hot,
When honey goes, so do the bees; it's the fact we face.
X
Free to chart my course unattached, my journey has began.
When banks of the celestial river I see with eyes closed,
Quest ends here; with a tranquil, and peaceful heart, I rest.
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Author Notes
* Reference to 'Siddhartha' -Hero of Hermann Hess' novel: Named after Hero, is made to indicate similarity between the poet's mindset at that point, and that of the hero letting go of his attachment to his teenager son, when later runs away from him.
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