In the moonlit night
Release flowers and fire
Into Ganga’s flow
Release flowers and fire
Into Ganga’s 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
Fire and Flowers
Ganga Aarti Ceremony
Parmarth Niketan Ashram
Rishikesh
Uttarakhand, India
Ganga Aarti Ceremony
Parmarth Niketan Ashram
Rishikesh
Uttarakhand, India
Taken during travels, 2017