(Happy) Ganesh Chathurthi 2022

This year has been a tad difficult. 

I want to remember, yet not, 

So many challenges, the tiredness, the near rot

The many helping hands and hugs, the will to move on. 

O Obstacle Slayer, to pray to you, I first learnt. 

Your stories I heard galore,

You seemed too good to be true, I deplored :)

With your brother I sympathised, though you no ill-will I bore.

Today, no one is around to remind me of your birthday. 

Not that I celebrated, but there is an ache. 

So from them to you, Ganesha, revel away,

Have plenty, make merry, this is your day, have your say.

- Written on 31 August 2022. 
- Self-Explanatory.