The name Kavitha is derived from the Sanskrit word for "poetry". This webpage is inspired by her name. If you have one that you wish to dedicate in her memory, please email to me and I will be happy to include on this page.

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On valentine's day, I was drawn to her memorial bench

At Crestlawn Memorial Gardens where her ashes rest!

A few days back, a blizzard had blown by

Covering the land of the departed with snow and ice!

The last hundred feet was yet unplowed,

I could not turn back, without leaving the flowers for my love!

I plunged into the knee-deep white snow,

Following the foot-prints of another determined soul!

I reach the garden of St Mark and stopped,

There was the bench, spotless and shining dark!

As I drove back home, I silently cried

Knowing she must have melted the snow and waited for me to come by!

Shankar Nambi

- Feb 14, 2010

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You and I, when we married each other,

In sickness and health, we vowed to be together!

 

You and I, when we dreamed and planned our future,

We always thought we would be in it together!

 

Then came that day, for which waited so long together

Little did I know that it was our last day in this life together!

 

I watched when you hugged our child and cried so hard, my dear

Little did I know that it was the last moment for all of us together!

 

And now you are gone and left me behind to wonder,

When will it be my time and we can once again be together!


I must live on and continue this journey of life my dear,

For I have to fulfill what we started together!

 

Someday when I am done and the almighty is ready for me, my dear

I will join you and we will be forever together!

Shankar Nambi

-Oct 10, 2008

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I bought some flowers today
 
To keep in front of your photograph
 
Roses and zenias and lillies
 
I know you would have given me your glorious smile
 
And thanked me with stars in your eyes

 
It's been two years since you left us
  
So unexpectedly and suddenly
  
You disappeared behind the white clouds
 
To become god's angel eternally

Do you know that I miss you so very much
 
Do you still laugh the way you used to do
 
You just walked into the sunset
 
Your memories still burn in the setting sun
 
Your memories still burn deep inside my heart..
 
The pain which I thought would go away
 
But it lingers and lingers persistantly

 
Your anger made the roses red
 
Your smile made the stars shine
 
Your love made the breeze soft and fragrant
 
The pain I thought would go away

But it lingers and lingers persistantly
 

There are a million things to remind me of you
 
A smile. a perfume, a word
 
The sand, the beach, the waves, the sunshine 
 
I thought the pain would go away
 
But it lingers and lingers persistantly

 
I know you are happy, wherever you are
 
And I know that you want me to be happy
 
I just go on pretending to be happy
 
Pretending to be strong
 
 I know that you want me to be happy
 
So, I pretend to be happy
 
but my dear,
 
The pain lingers spreading to every cell of my being

Mom

-Sept 16, 2010