(It?s the Christmas morning. Tanmay is sitting in a garden reading Pari?s love letter again and again. Wow! Everything is so good. The festive season, happy mood, Pari?s love?what else can anybody ask for? Oh yeah, Christmas gift! Where is my Christmas gift? Where is Santa Claus? After reading the letter for the 83rd time, Tanmay puts it back in his pocket and starts to look around to find any trace of Santa. And Ho Ho Ho? there he is on his one-horse open sleigh.)
Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh
Over the fields we go, laughing all the way;
Bells on bob-tail ring, making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh
Tanmay: Hey Santa, Merry Christmas!
Santa: Merry Christmas my child! Merry Christmas! May Jesus bless you with lots of happiness and success.
Tanmay: Oh Yea Santa! Jesus certainly will. But Santa where is my Christmas gift? I?m so excited about it. Just can?t wait to see what you have in store for me, this year around!
Santa: Tanmay this year I?ve got such a gift for you, that I?m sure you?ll be really happy after receiving it. But before I give you your gift, I?d like to know about those two lovers who went to a cemetery on the Christmas day.
Tanmay: Oh Santa you still remember about them. You ask me about them each year. The two lovers went to picnic in a cemetery on the 25th of December.
It was a cold Christmas morning,
Everyone was looking happy and charming!
Farmers took a holiday from the farming,
People wanted to enjoy with their darling!
It was on this foggy day,
When the sun was feeling shy, in showing a ray,
A couple of lovers very colorful and gay,
Decided to have a picnic, and they were on their way!
They didn?t want to be disturbed,
So that they could be kissed and hugged!
Therefore, they thought to picnic in a cemetery!
To give the exam of their?love chemistry?!
But no one has ever seen them again,
Neither in a garden nor in a lane!
Where they vanished is a mystery,
And now they have become a part of the history!
But people say, they can be seen on the Christmas nights,
Making love with great delight!
Now each year, on the 25th December,
Every lover becomes the cemetery?s member,
As this incident they will always remember!
(Composed by Tanmay Singh)
Santa: Oh Jesus is great! Those lovers whose love isn?t accepted by the mortals, he gives them the space to love, in his own vast kingdom! As there is nothing more holier than loving someone with true heart! Romeo-Juliet, Troylus-Crasida and many other such true lovers acquired their beloved in his kingdom.
Tanmay: I?m glad all hope isn?t lost for the true lovers if they can?t unite on this planet.
Santa: Okay now coming to your Christmas Gift. This year I don?t have anything specific for you. I?d give you whatever you like. So, just tell me what do you want the most and that will be your Christmas gift.
Tanmay: Wow Santa, that?s the best gift Christmas gift I could ever get! Now that you have asked me what I want, I?ve realized that I?m very happy & content(touchwood) and I don?t want anything for myself. But still since it?s Christmas and you never go back without gifting somebody, I want these 5 Christmas Gifts from you.
(1). Give my Pari all the happiness and good things this world has on offer. Even give her my share of happiness. And give me all her pain and sorrows. Before a problem reaches her it should reach me. Free her from all her troubles and make her the happiest soul on this planet. My happiness is directly proportional to hers, so if she is happy then automatically I?m happy too!
(2). Santa, my motherland India is in a very bad state. Although it?s progressing but things aren?t the way our freedom fighters expected them to be. Please give us Indians the strength, the determination and the courage to do what is right. Slowly but surely everyone is becoming a part of the wrong system and losing all hope. The day we all Indians decide to do what?s right, we would be unstoppable!
(3). Santa, there are many orphans and their numbers are increasing day by day. They have been bearing a punishment for no fault of theirs. They have been deprived of love, affection and care. They have been deprived of parents. Give them what is their right. Give them what is the right of each & every child. Give them a home Santa, give them a home.
(4). Santa, Jesus created the human beings as the most intelligent species. And he created this earth, so that they can live together happily and peacefully. But we humans his children, have lost our way. We have made boundaries on our mother Earth and are fighting with each other to snatch a higher share of our mother?earth? from our brothers. Give us wisdom Santa, and save our mother Earth from this disgrace of wars.
(5). Santa, give all my friends at Mouthshut a very happy, peaceful and satisfying life. They may get success in all their endeavours. They always move on the right path. They get prosperity, opulence and triumph in every task. And of course they do keep commenting on my reviews(just kidding).
That?s it Santa! That would be my Christmas gift!
Santa: Your gifts are granted!
(Santa goes back on his one-horse sleigh as Tanmay yet once again gets back to Pari?s letter.)
Let?s dance and sing and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
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© Tanmay Singh, 2004
