Sorrows
Bad memories
Unfulfilled dreams
Agonies
Grievances
Differences
Make it a bundle
Tie with a rope
Throw it in bonfires
Burn it until ash
Welcome the new life mix
With bountiful new harvest
Filled in beautiful mud pots
Embellished in colorful rangolis
Echoed through haridasa songs
Jingled out of Gangireddu dances
Sweetened in sugarcane thresholds
With Gobbemma’s and Diyas
Blaze the new year in exciting flames
That make your future in bright flakes
Anjana Lahuri@2021
