A candle for you : HAPPY DIWALI

When I entered my long dark dorm,

After my share of life’s endless storm,

I felt like a mile though I moved a few feet,

Thump after thump, the melancholy beat,

But the world aside was so new,

Blowing afresh my day now flew,

I rushed for match and soon luminance drew,

When I lit a candle for you.

I looked at the candle, yellow so bright,

Countering darkness with flaming might,

With swarming bugs who joggled as if prayed, 

As the grandma’s mystic fables, the flames swayed,

Sweet as sugar, tiny and true,

 When I lit a candle for you.