<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=522276" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Promise Difficult To Keep Up</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">a promise difficult to keep up</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&</div><div style="margin:10px 0">everyday the alarm beeps at 5 a.m.<br>i have to keep my promise to myself-<br>sweep the house interiors and mop them clean-<br>a self-imposed discipline at 67 years -<br>a visit to my elder brother in his 75 years at madhurai <br>transformed my loosened spirits into a worthwhile vow! <br>he was doing this work nonchalantly<br>for over 30 years or more, heartily-<br>'why not you, o lazy chap, instead of fuming at others? '-<br>my mind questioned; hence the resolution from 1, jan.,2012.<br>the bones weep in pain at the sounds of the beeps; <br>plead for a few more minutes of wakeful sleep-<br>'why not once in two days? ' suggest sheepishly-<br>'no more excuses! ' -reminder beeps punch on to my face.<br>with half-lazy eyes and non-cooperating legs <br>i switch on all the lights to slog away my lethargy; <br>o it takes 15 minutes to prepare the rooms for the surgery<br>before i could wield my broomstick for the deftful play-<br>then the mopping operations, amidst my loosening 'dhothi', <br>and punches and stabs into inaccessible recesses<br>making me almost weep from my failed efforts-<br>and the intrusions while the floors are wet<br>demanding one more stroke from my cursing back-<br>all the fans in full blast roar to dry my painful work! <br>o what an experience to view the smiling floor <br>at the end of it all and where is now the pain? <br>and then to relax on a chair with cool air swirling from above-<br>o what a joy as if i have the world at my feet! <br>o my 'mani annaa'! i gratefully remember you<br>every morning at 5 a.m.for motivating me into a beautiful task.<br>yes, i remember my elder sister 'visaalaakshi'<br>who has taken the exterior cleanliness of the house<br>at her age of 77, bending double over an artistic 'kolam'<br>with no holidays whatsoever in their noble lives!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sundaram+Chandrakalaadhar">Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=522276" data-title="A Promise Difficult To Keep Up de Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar" data-description="a promise difficult to keep up & everyday the alarm beeps at 5 a.m. i have to keep my promise to myself- sweep the house interiors and mop them clean- a self-imposed discipline at 67 years - a visit to my elder brother in his 75 years at madhura..."></div> </div> </div>

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