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Metamorphosis of Familiar faces-3

by Gayathri Devi Dutt
(Bangalore, India)

God Father

(God father 3rd in the series of 12)




A world war veteran's son with soldier genes
Sported the DNA in a warring path for the community he lived

Geography was his domain that engulfed the
social territory in all spheres.

An eclectic personality adorned scholarship and artistic finesse
Economically sound but asset creation was not his forte,
Yet accumulating wealth of knowledge of the human race
compounded the human potential to optimum level.

Any student, colleague or friend in his loop
dragged into his family fold and
Etched a permanent place for them in his home.

The cognitive ability was a spiral magnet that
trapped the inquisitive ones and carved a niche


Blood relations at a bay and lived among
the aliens in a home for the aged
though caged in the home for the aged
The smiling countenance did not fade

When the Pandemic drove him from the self created abode
the happiness seized and after a long breath breathed his last

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