A Child Wedding
written by: Prakash Nagarajan
The ceremony was on,
overseen by a priest and village hanger-ons,
of a marriage fixed and soon to be performed.
Drums beat and trumpets blew,
and amidst it all, she sat to little clue,
Innocent to her fate, oblivious to a call,
A gift given, promise taken,
mesmerized by a toy,
that shiny little ball,
holding her in a truly magical thrall.
How would the little one even have known,
she was being forsaken
by those whom she must have thought to be her very own.
Prakash Nagarajan, is a well-known author and a popular poet of international repute from India. He has been awarded the 'Kairat Duissenov Medal' for Poetic Excellence in the year 2021 by World Nations Writers Union, and also a recipient of the 'Bharat Ratna Rabindranath Tagore Award for 2023' awarded by Indo-Universe Voices of Poetry, an International Literary Organization, for his unstinting contribution towards literature. Though quiet by nature, he is a keen observer of Life, and coupled with his penchant for writing, he often puts to paper with a lovely flourish, his thoughts, views and observations. When not confined to his desk churning out poems and stories, he seeks pleasure in long walks, is an intense nature-lover and avid photographer. In his spare hours, he can also be found devoting time teaching (for gratis) school children, Economics, Psychology, History, and English, subjects those that are close to his heart.
Latest posts by Prakash Nagarajan (see all)
- Just Like Yesterday - June 7, 2023
- In The Arms of Nature - May 21, 2020
- A Child Wedding - March 28, 2020
