Pitru Paksh

A fortnight dedicated to them 

The ones that led to our being 

A period of mere days fifteen 

Comes once a year each year

The ancestors of the family line

The ancestors of cultural incline

All those that touched our lives 

Our folks, friends and Gurus divine 

One day we shall meet them again 

Those that left here prior to us

For now we offer our homages

By doing the tarpan in remembrances 

Their Shraaddh we mark with offerings 

And ritualistic havans and musings 

The Pitrupaksha is here for those elders

Who left vacuum around our borders

We call upon their blessed visitings 

In whichever form as earthly sightings 

The crows bring symbolic messages

And cows pass on the needed blessings 

The Brahman Devta forms representation 

Of the ancestors from Godly dwellings 

Papa’s favorite kheer prepared & served

Grandma’s memory rekindled & observed 

In reverence the fortnight is observed

Rekindled memories of their fragrance

Those that passed on to the other shore

Our loved Pitrus missed by us to the core