58. ANOTHER POEM ON MY PATH

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You’ve had a good life –

You’ve left a maverick mark

On the modern sands of education;

A lot of people respect you

A lot of your students adore you; you’ve made a little of a lot of students,

You’ve had French Café atmosphere times with the

                                                               aroma of intellectual stuff

you’ve enjoyed the world with your camera

you’ve lived and loved and laughed till you cried.

So be happy …. You ought to be

It’s only a few people who could have enjoyed life like you did.

I suppose you could have run other things too

May be better than others.

But when, if you could have done it then

You can do it now too.

At least

In a different way, through a different role,

With or without official badges.

It’s the things done which matters, yes?

Do it Sam. Make a difference

Start an organization like Cry – perhaps.

Make it work.

Make me more proud of you.

Come to think of it, for whatever little, it may mean to you

I never interacted like this, with anyone else

In the whole of the universe,

The soul of Sam means the most to me.

Since you came into my life,

Life has become heady like champagne ( J I’ve never tasted it but…)

I wish I could tell you

How much I like you

Or may be, just may be

You feel the same way

And so you know.

If at the end of life

If all souls are free and asked

To choose their own heaven

If God were to say to me

‘you’ve been good,

What do you want?’

I would say – ‘Sam”!