Reposting an old poem….I wrote this poem in 2001, when I was getting married, At that time I was in college….my father read this poem after my marriage when he found it in my college diary….my mother called me up in the night & asked me what have U written in your college diary?  your dad is crying… never ever thought that one day I will lose him like this. In a girl’s life two relationships are very important, her father & her husband, and destiny snatches both of them away from my life…..sharing this with all of you….

I wonder amidst tears

Which down my cheeks flow

Who was it, who decided

That daughters must go

I am God’s gift to you

I hope your heart remembers

Father! How can you send me away where my feet would tread on embers?

I was born out of love in your home

Which I thought was ours

Can’t you stop me from going

Is everything out of your powers?

Till yesterday I was your little girl

The apple of your eye

Papa! You need a heart of stone

To say Good Bye.

I don’t know when the change came

This bud blossomed into a flower

Pray, tell me Father

The year, the day, the hour.

It’s hard to reconcile

To come to terms with reality

Can’t you hear my pleas

And have a little pity.

I hate the world for doing this

For telling you I have come of age

Your house is the only safe place

The world is a lion’s cage.

When I was little

You held my finger

And taught me how to walk

How will you feel when you see me

As down the aisle I stalk?

I try not to think of the

Lovely years gone by

A mammoth effort does it take

But the memories go on increasing

Like the candles on my cake.

You said I was your pearl

Your precious one

Giving their treasures to others

Since when have people begun?

You shouldn’t have loved me so much

If you had to send me away

I can’t bear the thought of parting

So forever let me stay.

All along you shielded me

From storms & all sorts of dangers

How can you send me among aliens now

And marry me off to a stranger.

I have never been out in the world

Without you there beside me

Who will be there with a lantern now

Show me the way & guide me.

I was always believed that I was yours

I just can’t think of someone else possessing me

No matter how much I try to understand

That it is for the better

And that GOD is blessing me.

Why do relationships change in life

Round each blend,

I wish each one had one family

From the beginning right to the end.

How soon will you forget me

When I left the town?

In winters will you remember

The little girl

Who forced you into the gown.

Will you ever think of me

And miss having me around the house

Papa will you remember the little girl

Who was scared by a mouse?

Father with those old times,

Will you ever think of catching up

Our quarrels the cold wars

And finally the happy patching up.

I will miss hugging you

And sitting on your knees.

You can keep all my toys & books

Each one has a story to tell

Which will take you down memory lane

And in your mind ring a bell.

Who will show me the brightest star in the night sky?

Who will make his arm a pillow for me

And sing the lullaby??

Papa! I want you to know

That this lady in the eyes of the world.

Will always be your little girl

Always full of love for you

And looking up to you.

THE DARLING FATHER OF THE PEARL……Love U  & Miss U Papa.

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