Light Poem by Aparna Chatterjee

Light a<br style='color: rgb(34,34,34): font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; ' />
Candle<br style='color: rgb(34,34,34): font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; ' />
For me<br style='color: rgb(34,34,34): font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; ' />
In the river<br style='color: rgb(34,34,34): font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; ' />
And see<br style='color: rgb(34,34,34): font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; ' />
If I can<br style='color: rgb(34,34,34): font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; ' />
Flow<br style='color: rgb(34,34,34): font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; ' />
Like the<br style='color: rgb(34,34,34): font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; ' />
River</span><br style='color: rgb(34,34,34): font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; ' />
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<span style='font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-weight: normal; '>(Theme could be prayer / welfare) <br style='color: rgb(34,34,34): font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; ' />
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I wrote this on the ancient tradition of wishing someone well, lighting a candle in his/her name and setting it afloat in the river Ganges after the evening Aarti on the ghats of Varanasi.<br style='color: rgb(34,34,34): font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; ' />
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<strong>Flow like the river </strong>implies - a river flows despite all odds, overcoming all obstacles....</span>