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Patient,peaceful,shining eyes

Wizened face ,grey shaggy moustache, beard

Aquiline nose,balded forehead,long grey mane

Frayed, ash-colour shirt collar

The PICTURE in the living room

A toddler two decades back looked with curiousity

Stared----------- finger in his chubby mouth

Bare buttocks................. flimsy cotton vest

Bubbling with energy..... never seeking rest

"Who is that?" drawled the toddler to his doting mother

"Your great grandfather dear.......... but don't bother !"

The New Year hatches

The living room picture watches

Calendars are replaced.. their pages are turned

Question in the mind of the toddler forever burned

Balloons,coloured paper streamers.. living room decorated

The child's tenth birthday ........................ the day ill-fated

Not tall enough to reach the picture

Stands up on a chair.... brings the picture down

Stares at the picture closely

Careless for a trice-the picture drops-- the glass is shattered

The boy plays with the Picture ----- glass all round scattered

Boy grows into a lovely teenager............ becomes self-conscious

The picture with the new glass smiled-- seemed to say something

Hot summer days, chilly winter nights,sicknesses,silly family fights

The Picture saw them all.................... never tired at these sights

The living room has a new coat of glistening paint

Bright fluorescent lights shine ... the toddler now an adult

Room abuzz with invitees ----gracing the wedding ceremony

Pretty,newly wedded wife- tired after the sacred matrimony

That PICTURE is so ugly !!!! doesn't suit a wall as this !

Put up the painting we got as wedding present

The toddler inside the groom revolts but doesn't dissent

Old Man is disgracefully taken  off  the  rusty iron hook

Thrown into the trashbin ... that is written in The Book

The Book of Evolution, The Book of  Change with Time

What'd I think if that Picture was mine ??????

© Bishwanath Mukherjee