Marriage getting solemnized <br />All in appropriate attires <br />Greetings <br />Friends in great excitement <br />Relatives exchanging welfare <br />And development or otherwise in <br />Respective families <br />Photographers, video-graphers <br />Busy and directing targets for proper posing <br />Me, alone, present at the request of the <br />Bridegroom's father <br />Who, at a distance, was busy <br />With his traditional rituals <br />Just fifteen minutes before <br />He only received me with all enthusiasm <br />And made have a sumptuous breakfast <br />I was seated in a select location <br />With enough air circulation <br />And was watching everything going on <br />I was forced into listening to <br />The instrumental music played live <br />The traditional manually air-blown instrument <br />Creates strong sounds of music <br />Masking all other sounds <br />And a music-drawn mind <br />Will not miss to make out the notes being played <br />Me, having a taste of music, <br />Was naturally drawn to that <br />And I was enjoying the same <br />Failing to note the happenings around <br />But the musician gives a break and <br />Allows his percussionist comes out <br />With a speedy beat to mark the completion of <br />A particular special traditional event <br />This helped me to assess the standing of the celebration <br />Marriage got solemnized <br />I approached the musician <br />And told him about those notes <br />Which I enjoyed very much <br />And thanked him for a nice presentation <br />I must indeed thank you, <br />He said, as <br />No one really takes note of us, the musicians <br />At these functions <br />I only wish your taste for music stay for ever <br />And let that be made known <br />We survive not on any other resources <br />But on the expressed taste for music<br /><br />Bashyam Narayanan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-survive-not-on-any-other-resources-but-on-the-expressed-taste-for-music/
