Workshop # 14 
The Postlude

What are you going to do, dear friend,
The rest of your life?
Your beloved wife
Seated by your side
Darns with devotion
And skips a stitch or two often in her design
Never forgetting to peck at you
With a needlepoint fine
Picking up the times
When you were damnably wrong
Which she now conscientiously condemns
And will condemn all your life.
Your darling child
Repeatedly reminds
You have outlived your time.
All of them judge you according to their lights
But how do you judge yourself
Now that the summit has been gained
Does the struggle seem worthwhile?
In the dying light
Going the downhill of your life
Do you sadly repine
All your priorities have been wrong?
Did you chase only a mirage
Ignoring things dearest to your heart
Put off for another time?

This height
Cost you a lot of opportunities
Worse still, some compromise.
My heart
Now it is too late in the day
To realign.
Let us have some rest
The rest of our life
To amuse ourselves to see
How life eludes life.

– Kumud Biswas
March 7, 2004 

Workshop # 14
Articles     
A Weighty Reflection by Pavalamani Pragasam 
As We Age by J. Ajith Kumar 
Flying Colors by B.V Ramana Rao 
Recycling and Creativity by Akila Sivakumar 
Sunset Memories by Tyr Anon
You Are Not Alone... by S. Rajameena
Poetry    
A Beautiful Evening by Smitha Abraham
A Picture of Tranquility by Swagata Bhattacharya
A Tale of Two Images by Pavalamani Pragasam 
Affair of Nature by Neria Harish Hebbar, MD
Eternity's Shore by Dr. Madan G. Gandhi 
Gloaming Effect by B.V. Ramana Rao 
Just the Two of Us by AJ Rao 
Low Tide by Dr. Padmashree C.G. Rida  
Retention by Latha B.S 
The Twilight Hours by Shernaz Wadia
The Postlude by Kumud Biswas 
Stories 
A Stranger in His Life by Dinanath Manohar  
The Breeze from the Sea by Greeshma Achar 
The Road and I ... by Anita Joseph 
 

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