Lost a Soul

Thinking of your beautiful smile

So coy and so shy

We laughed together

What a joy and delight

Sang a parody in the classroom

and our fingers danced to the tune

Found joy in every smallest prank

Enjoyed like a child

Then your life was shattered

With a disease so cruel called cancer

You never liked to share your troubles and times in despair

Always a girl who is so strong inside

You fought back and regained

And let no one know about your struggle

Unfortunately life hit back with vegeance on you

Again and again

You were bedridden like an old

Athletic body started melting down

To a mere skeleton, incapacitated

It was so hurting to see you come under the knife

So many times

Why were you made to suffer so much

No reason I could find

That was the moment of facing the truth

Nothing is in our hand

Life is so short, should make the most of every moment

And tell your beloved ones that you care

Still you were a fighter

A true winner

who stood fighting the tornado of life

What was most difficult is to face your devastated mother

And still it is

Watching like a helpless

Fumbling for right words to console

Wished I could do something to get you out

Knew the only thing I could do

Was to make the best of your last moments of life

And pray not to make you suffer any more

On a single dawn came a call

Giving the message God took you away

Leaving you pain free

But couldn’t fulfill your desire to live more

You have gone forever, never to come back

Leaving a empty space in our lives

With your memories delight

And tears roll down thinking of your beautiful smile

So coy and so shy

- Drishya V Prabhakaran

12^th October 2008