Peace, Tranquility

He has lived the greater balance
of his long life outside the country of
his birth, a mere youth when he arrived
from India, he is now white-haired and
grizzled, open-heart surgery has left him
greatly reduced, and his habitual sense
of despondency that his great jubilation
in his grandchildren lift, has now
descended in a deep depression of
anxiety. Long a proud citizen of his
fondly adopted country, yet as a visible
minority, cautious in his social relations
with those whose outward manifestations
of birth and entitlement he feels himself
inferior to. Mohindar and Rajinder also
love their comfortable home which has
been theirs for 28 years, emptied now
of their children and a treasured haven
in their elder years. They've seen and
befriended a succession of other families
on their street particularly those moving
to the home next to theirs. The latest to be
broken, with children in their mother's
care has installed a pool, its furnace
placed directly aside his yard, and its
continual sound and vibration invade his
privacy, an intrusion beyond aggravation
that the neighbour obliviously shrugs into
a nuisance file to be forgotten. Leaving
them to agonize with few avenues
of retreat but to unwillingly relocate....