Casual and serious thoughts / ಹಗುರ ಹಾಗು ಗಂಭೀರ ಆಲೋಚನೆಗಳು

  AI generated image Click here for audio recitation 🔊 ನೆನ್ನೆಯ ತನಕ ಘಾಡವಿದ್ದು ಇಂದೇಕೆ ದೂರ ಸರಿದೆ? ನನ್ನಲೇನು ಹುಳುಕ ಕಂಡೆ ಸ್ನೇಹ ಬಳ್ಳಿಯ ನೀನೇಕೆ ಕಡಿದೆ? ಮೌನವೇಕೆ ತಿಳಿಯಹೇಳು ಹೇಳಲೇಕೆ ನನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಗುವು ನಕ್ಕು, ಅತ್ತ ದಿನವ ನೆನೆದು ನೀನಳುಕ ಪದರ ಹರಿದು ಬಿಚ್ಚು॥ ತಪ್ಪು ನನ್ನದೆ ಇರಲುಬಹುದು ಅದರ ಅರಿವು ನನಗೆ ಇರದು ಮೌನವೆಲ್ಲಿ ಇದಕೆ ಮದ್ದು ತೆರೆದು ನೀನೇ ಹೇಳಬಹುದು॥ ಸ್ನೇಹ ಹೂವಿಗೆಂತಹ ಮುಳ್ಳು? ಈ ಕೋಪವಿರಬಹುದೆ ಸುಳ್ಳು? ಅರಿವುದೆಂತು ತಿಳಿವುದೆಂತು? ಬಿಚ್ಚಿ ನೀನು ಮಾತನಾಡು॥ ತೇಲಿ ಹೋಗಿಹೆ ದಿಕ್ಕು ಬೇರೆ ಸೇರತೊಡಗಿದೆ ಬೇರೆ ದಡಕೆ ಭಾರವಾಗಿ ಮುಳುಗಿ ಹೋಗಿಹೆ ಕತ್ತಲಲ್ಲಿ ಕಲೆತು ಕರಗಿಹೆ॥ ಹಳೆಯ ನೆನಪಿನ ಸೆಳೆಯ ಪಾಷ ಮಾಡದಿರಲಿ ಈ ನಂಟ ನಾಶ ದಾರ ಕೀಳಲು ಪಟವು ಹಾರಲಿ ದಿಗಂತದಾಚೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಸೇರಲಿ॥ ನೇನಪು ಉಳಿಯಲಿ ಚಿತ್ರಪಟದಲಿ ನಕ್ಕು ನಲಿದ ಕ್ಷಣವು ಮೂಡಲಿ ಮೆಲಕು ಹಾಕುವೆ ನಾ ಒಂಟಿಯಾಗಿ ಜಾಣ, ನೆನೆಪು ಮರೆಯಲಿ ಹಗುರವಾಗಿ॥

Long time back, my brother had a very close friend. Being so, he was also like an elder brother to me.  We lost touch with him many years back and even though we had made some feeble attempts to get back in touch, it did not work. Perhaps, more due to lack of intensity of getting back in touch from us and also from him.  He was a very genial and down to earth person. He had many an advice for me as I grew up.  When my brother attended his schoolmates 50th year get-together, he had hoped to see his old friend there and was disappointed not to see him. Enquiries with other classmates lead to an information that one of the classmates spoke to him about two plus years back and this old friend was sounding very sick with a feeble voice. Apparently, he had lost his job and was having health issues. The classmate gave a telephone number of the friend and it was not reachable. The “True caller” app suggested this was in the name of that old friend.  My brother spoke to me ab...