"A FAMILY TREE" by Ashwini Kumar Goswami (classic fiction .txt) 📕

"THREE EPISODES OF OUR FAMILY TREE"

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"A FERTILE FEMININE FAMILY”
(One To Seven, Yet None Is Son)

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Two Springs, I have yet to gaze,
To hit a quarter century of age !
Now I am walking along the edge
Of my life gone above average !

When I do feel being emotional,
I happen to be quite devotional !
Consequently dipping into thoughts,
I recall my silly childhood rots !

Scenes of growing our family tree,
My memory exhibits before me !
Our family grew like an oak tree,
Broad branches whereof being three !

These branches were my three granddads,
Who, I remember, were our family heads !
Two of them cherished births of sons,
The third remained ever aspiring such ones !

He continued growing family with such ecstasy,
But every time contrarily he begot a lassie !
One-to-seven, yet none was a son,
All lassies, too, were of swarthy complexion !

This created in him a sense of grudge,
Against his brothers, so thence he became a drudge !
Though that was so-called irony of fate,
Which has to be sustained without rebate !

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper,
Outcome of which all have to suffer !
The jealous grandpa was lastly blessed with a son,
Whereby dwindling his so long inset tension !

The son can only enhance family tree,
Making the father’s parentage free !
That’s why the birth of a son is preferred,
And that of a daughter is demurred !

The Goddess “Mother Universe” felt this disparity,
Being observed against any daughter’s entity !
She blessed seven lassies of envious granddad,
With high academic degrees to go ahead !

All his seven girls gained prodigious talent,
Each one proved high-flying and gallant !
They began teaching by tuitions day-and-night,
Thus earning enough to defeat family plight !

They laid examples in our fallacious society,
To do away with all fallacy of variety !
Their family thus became rich enough,
To entice grooms for betrothal hand-cuff !

“Mother Universe” thus proved Her Prudence,
Favouring femininity to gain credible credence!
Now the women class is prospering everywhere,
Equally high-flying with their fantasy of flair !

”Family Planning Code" they adhere to,
To restrict their issues to maximum two !
Developing or under-developed nations
Are yet to happen to learn such lessons !

Like China and India having huge populations,
Whereby facing indecipherable aberrations !
Their rural hoi-polloi yet proliferating,
Unmindful of large family yet anticipating !

Hence they all are with multitudinous family,
Always increasing there, though willy-nilly !
Rigid rule of law is must to be enforced,
The governments must take it to be endorsed !

Over-population snubs the way of development,
Developed nations only are yet vigilant !
Let us all developing nations swear by God,
To restrict human growth using rigidly a rod !


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“POSTHUMOUS PENURY”

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Certainty and surety are defined dogmatically with death

Uncertain, unknown remains all the aftermath !

Innumerable families depend on a sole bread-winner,

Single-handed hardly he procures diet or dinner !

Hand-to-mouth such family growing undeveloped,

Basic needs of bread-clothes-house tightly enveloped !

Elementary education even is an ego in the dreams,

Ignorant are all others including social teams !

Divine Law yet remains rigid without benevolence,

Pitiable is such situation to sustain intolerance !

The climax occurs even yet through cruel calamity,

Circumstantially when the bread-winner becomes a casualty !

Such family hard-hit, cannot fight fatality,

People only gather showing flimsy favorability !

Posthumous performances render the family overburdened,

In addition to that of debt already left by the abandoned !

People’s formal sympathy cannot heal any such wound,

Humanity seems vanished when humans are so ruined !

Numerous families are undergoing such Divine Tyranny,

Meager and negligible is succour, if any !

These are grave grievances of public concern,

Government and Social Groups must direly discern !

Orphanage and shelter-homes need be ubiquitous,

Provided with needy amenities and apparatus !!

Helpful is always in the nation, any benevolent donator,

If called upon earnestly, he may come eagerly to monitor !

Grace of God is solicitous, if sought unanimously,

As even iron is flattened, if hammered continuously !

Poets are implored earnestly to play also their part,

Interning this poem of mine in the core of their heart !

Philanthropy should be observed, ever remembering it apart,

This should be the admitted dogma making it a chart !

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“JOURNEY WITH JOLTS”

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Thrillingly unforgettable are painful predicaments,

En route while travelling with decrepit parents !

Destined to die, my dear Dad was sleeping as ever,

We didn’t know his sleeping would awaken him never !

When after long, we tried to awaken him for meal,

He seemed quite inert, as if, nothing he could feel !

Reality was that he had all gone to be a corpse,

Certainly was it so that he was now no more !

Our travelling clan then felt indisposed in toto,

The pilgrimage had to be curtailed thence pronto !

The decoupled mom was jolted with speechless trouble,

The quandary thus being simultaneously double !

I was nervously facing such agony of distress,

Having fallen under such surmounting stress !

Anxiety remained only to wait for next junction,

Where we could drop for further needful function !

Priority overhead was to alight the train,

With the dead Dad and the Mom in strain !

The co-passengers helped in pulling stopping-chain,

For interrupting soon the fast-going train !

The train halted, passengers were quite ready,

To help me out of train with mute Mom, dead Daddy !

The Railway Police on duty insisted on forensic test,

Who had to be hushed with money to forgo any quest !

So hardly, we felt free then to alight the train,

The pilgrimage was curtailed thus with agony of pain !

However, we managed then to travel homeward,

For undertaking last journey towards the graveyard !

Such are hidden happenings under irony of fate,

The Divine Law is invincible at any cost or rate !

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Note: This is narration of a real episode in my

relation, which is always unforgettable !

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Publication Date: 01-03-2010

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