Fire, flowers and flow

For pilgrims and believers
A gift to Ganga, river goddess
Holy of holies
Source and purifier

For tourists and travellers
A ritual of participation
In the ways of a foreign land
A footprint left
A photo taken
A connection made

For myself
A remembrance of friends and family
Lost too soon, too tragically
Gone but always remembered
Like the flowers and fire
Drifting all too quickly
Down the river Ganga