Shrunken Banana
I knew him barely
On the University Hill
He too started in physics
Our common friend – another physicist
In Radiology
Talked about him
Now, it’s too late
We do not know
The real cause
Was it all due to the
Radiation, particle or photon
But he knew about the field
In depth -
Its regulations, the risks
He must have cured
Or at least given, supervised
The most appropriate dose
What they say: in micro-Curies
To numerous patients
But slogging for twelve years
With the underlying illness
Can you believe?
What it was like?
For him or for anybody
He provided for his wife
And children
Often helped the local
Immigrant community
Strange, his wife would only
Say, say with teary eyes: “He
Did so much work around the
House, gardening. Now the plants
Like abandoned children feel it too”
We know anything, rather the value
Of any entity
When we lose it
The shrunken, dehydrated banana
Plant stands pitiably in shame murmuring
“More than anybody in the family
I knew him and his gentle touch”
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