Birthdays Every Year.

Celebrations   all through life

with birthdays coming every year

praying to God for extra years

well , what to say at the age of sixty

that being a  little more understandable

as now intense prayers for extension

goes ahead at the age of seventy

followed by eighty, ninety and hundred

not in a duration of a decade

but going by every year from sixty

and even before the age of that

with the fifty-eight, fifty-nine

going to temples and conducting poojas

with homams and abhishekams

inviting relatives and friends

laying the table and throwing out a feast

not for lunch but for days together

making people sit and watch the religious function

has become the fashion  in my part of India

where people’s greed has become extraneous

wanting to become immortal  and prosperous

and enjoy the life altogether  with a longevity

 

 

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