ArtrAgious

For seven years you've been blended to a taste so fine. You've always been around for us at any time. A good companion, who comes at a very low price. You bring people together from sunset to sunrise. We bang on the shutters for you when the shops are closed by night. We care a damn if we are unable to get a coke or sprite. You've brought feeling to our lives, at moments of desperation. For most of us, you have been our mentor and our inspiration We drink to our pain or joy, one peg at a time But no matter how much we drink, with no hangovers, things are just fine. They talk of Gandhi being the father of our Nation. To us you are,

And death prevails, the year 2011, the year of demise, saw my cousin brother carrying his two hour old dead baby in his own arms, crying like a small baby who lost his most beloved & awaited toy. the curse came back again killing the first child of the next generation of my family. The most unwanted saga continued as my first & eldest nephew died just after his birth just like my first cousin died in the year 1981. The mourning of my aunt and the whole family still haunts me on my cellphone. she is the one who lost her own first child & first grandchild. She kept her strong that time & i am sure she will this time as well. I have alway