My dear Chittappa

To my dear Chittappa

 - Thank you for being there!

You celebrated my birth & infancy

Laughed & joked while we were growing up.

Before we even learned that life was hard;

My Father's best friend,

My Grandmother's loving son.

You are the soul of our family

For as pillars fell, one by one.

You swept the fragments away, and said

"I'll always be there".

Life is a short interlude

Where we are blessed with Love

For youth and wealth are but feathers

We proudly adorn for a while.

And then the body ages, and we feel the pain

of lost stamina, of missed opportunities

And even as we watch on

Life passes us by.

But for people like you

And I know not many;

Life is a chain of glorious encounters

Each day a golden chance

To help someone in need

With a kind word or deed.

And leave the person feeling blessed

That the world still has people like you

That understand.

I may be far away

But I want to tell you

How much your presence means to me

And to thank you

For just "being there".

- Asha