Eyes Closed

Eyes closed,  

With darkness within,

Dark enough to exhort to search,

Search for light, Light that is contained inside,

Light that surrounds outside, which cannot be seen, but can only be felt,

With eyes closed...

Eyes closed,

With prayers within,

Prayers to get strength,

Strength to differentiate,

The right and the wrong,

Even with eyes closed...

Eyes closed,

With dreams within,

Waiting to get alive,

To live a moment,

A moment to remember and recall,

With eyes closed...

A lot to see and lot to feel,

With eyes closed…

Just be with yourself and listen,

With eyes closed...

Kanyadaan

Marriage... The most awaited event in everybody's life... Everything has been written and said about it and I have nothing more or different to add to it.

But, there is a small ritual which when happened during my marriage, touched my heart and would like to share it...

After Kandyadaan and Mangalphera, groom holds the aanchal of his mother-in-law, and promises to leave only when she would fulfill his demand... He asks his mother-in-law to gift him something really precious and only then he would let off his aanchal...

After listening to her son-in-law's demand, with tears in her eyes, says that " My dear son... I have already gifted you the most priced possession of my life, my daughter... What more precious gift can I give you?"

With this answer, nothing was left to ask or say...

And a mother gifts her 28 years of hard work and love to a man, who, she expects would love her daughter more than her...

I salute to the parents of a daughter...