A Man Recalled <br />- - - - - - - - - - - <br />When I looked back <br />Some events of yesteryears <br />Promptly act as mnemonics <br />I wrestle not, nor tease my reason <br />To recall that man nostalgic <br />It comes easy and so easy <br />That time seems amnesic <br />Of its own time sensitivity <br />And as if from that old position <br />It has shrunk not, nor stretched a bit <br /> <br />Hence my memory clasped it <br />Not far away and not short ago <br />A man I chanced to meet <br />In an old-structured building <br />That housed many offices with many a logo <br />And the building wore a pallid looking <br />Crown, cornice and eaves, weary of time <br />Seemed not in vitality to stay still <br />Hence crumbling slowly and softly <br />Forsaking the antiquity wistfully <br /> <br />Yet as usual businesses there went on well <br />The man I met was well past his noon <br />And the autumn was yet to set in <br />He was not good looking nor yet ugly <br />Tall, slender and his eyes looking shiny <br />His work was his monument <br />When asked to get a work done <br />Cast down his eyes demurely <br />To give greater effect to his work and said done <br />Subjected to self-mortification <br /> <br />He got lost in his work only <br />Over a cup of tea and ill-cut bread and butter filled <br />Over hours together settled in a corner lonely <br />He was a work-maniac or rather workaholic <br />His associates were right seemingly <br />Years slipped by <br />Flowers bloomed and withered <br />Seasons came stealing on <br />And well past him unknown <br />A lovely rhyme his baby rhymed <br /> <br />Whether had solaced him unknown <br />And the baby at his knee <br />Whence transformed to a man unknown <br />Work work work <br />He got lost in his work <br />Forgetting to redeem time <br />For moments of joy and mercy, <br />Love and prayer <br />And now he is no more <br />Leaving behind a legacy of work <br />As worship for all to think over………<br /><br />DEEPAK KUMAR PATTANAYAK<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-man-recalled/
