ELEGY ON ONE’S OWN SELF
Raparla
Janardana Rao
Looking life from out at Eighty!
What a life spent full with energy hefty!
Parents, love in plenty, friends, sweetness added
Education, cultural acceptance well enjoyed
Music, flowers, fruits, sun’s colours in spree
Shame and fame entwined, the Siamese twins
Fears, failures, successes, salad tasted
A family reared up, and life made full
Loved many, loved by many of regions
Religions all pure looking, love shown,
At this lone traveller, with journey uncharterd
At the end nothing to remember nothing to tell
Sans name, gender, region “Real Self” bare
Lived with words, words and words, now the great Mute.