Cheeku
Another birthday of your dad is done with. On 13th, Shagun, Sunny, Gaurav and Tintin were with me. Deepesh remembered it and so did so many others. Tubby sent me an email, an e-card with music in his inimitable style. You didn?t call, beta. I waited all day for your call, for you to say ?Hi dad, happy birthday. Wassup?? I waited all day and all evening?I am waiting still
On my screen I have your picture that I had taken in Cardiff the only time I came to be with you. The sun had come out and your are beaming at me, the daylight illuminating you. It was in the main shopping area, near the shop which you said was your phone shop. I remember each moment from that visit. But then I remember every moment of my life with you?
How as a toddler you would trundle up to me and clasp my knees looking up at me with those wonderfully expressive eyes and saying ?godi? in sweet small voice. My heart would be overflowing with joy as I would swing you up in my arms and hear your gurgling laughter?
The last time we were together how at the Victoria station where I had come to pick you up we kept calling each other on the mobile but couldn?t see each other for a long time?and then I saw you over the heads of the crowd walking towards me and then you were there! I hugged you and you hugged me back. Those two days went so quickly. The way we walked London?and that evening when you had to go back and at the bus stand you gave me a quick hug. I knew you were hurting, you didn?t want to go but then you were grown up boy and how could you not go back and fulfill your duty as a student?I had such a hollow feeling, I wanted to call you back?then the bus moved away and I tried frantically to call you on the mobile but the phone wouldn?t connect?you just went away?
I am one year older. The only solace I have is that I am one year closer to you. I know one of these days it would be curtain call and then you would open the door for me and smile and say ?Hi dad! Welcome home!? I shall wait for that day to come, beta.
I love you
Dad