On This Summer Night – Empower Now Blog

On This Summer Night

Standing on the house terrace

On this summer night

I thought, looking at this night

What a night, what a night

What a breeze, what a breeze

While my hair wafting through

While watching the Moon

While through those coconut trees

While leaves are swinging to the slow wind

While the graceful Moon’s

Light flowing all around

Falling on me and all around

My eyes, looking at this night

Thought what a paintful night

What a paintful night this is

My eyes sketched through every corner

On this beautiful summer night

I closed my eyes

In that darkness, I saw

Me running cheerfully, laughing

On the terrace

In distance, I heard a voice

Calling my name and saying

Please, don’t run, don’t run

You know, I cannot run with you

Hearing that I ran even faster

Laughing out mischievously

And, ran even faster, faster

While my friendly pet dog

Following me, looking at me with awe

While I looked at the dog in awe too

I heard, the beautiful voice again

Saying, come here dear

See, look at the Moon

What a Moon, What a Moon

Look at the stars, Look at the stars

Dear, these are the last two boluses of rice

You have to eat them fast

As the voice was saying

I ran laughing, no, no, no more

The voice again said

Now, open your mouth

I promise, just the last two boluses of rice

You know you are a beautiful doll

I said, aha…aha…Nah…I don’t

I don’t want to eat anymore

With head oscillating in half circle

With tight pouted lips

This time the voice with a little stern, said

Now, if you don’t open your mouth

I will leave you on the terrace, all alone

With a little more stern voice

Said, come here, as I said

These are the last two boluses of rice left

You have to finish eating

Them fast, it is getting late

This time, scared, I obeyed

Ate the rest of the boluses of rice

And, pleaded, please don’t leave me here

The voice said sweetly with all the love

In this world, now, you are my darling

My sweetest granddaughter in this world

And, she said, why would I will leave you

All alone here in this dark?

Now, come let us go downstairs

I followed, holding on to her sari’s kongu (pallu) edges

Followed by my loving pet

Standing there on that terrace

I thought to myself

Now, she is the heroine of my life

My Grandmother has all together

In total 13 Grandchildren

And, she took care of each one of us

With same love, affection and patience

For some reason, though I feel

I was her beloved granddaughter

Maybe I might be dreaming

Maybe I am imagining

But she used to say that

I am her sweetest granddaughter

Every day, on that terrace ritual

Of feeding me food

Whenever she used to say that

I used to feel something inside, special

My tender heart felt so happy

Standing there, I thought to myself

So many memories

On this terrace

I opened my eyes

I looked at the dark blue sky

There was a bright star twinkling

I thought to myself

My grandmother is really

Star among all the stars that are shining

I thought, looking at this night

What a night, what a night

What a breeze, what a breeze

While my hair wafting through

I felt a little sad, nostalgic, happy

That my grandmother is watching

From above, with all her love

Blessing me with all her smile

On this summer night