{"id":149183,"date":"2025-02-16T13:46:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T13:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=149183"},"modified":"2025-02-16T13:48:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T13:48:56","slug":"vale-devasiri-my-friend-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/vale-devasiri-my-friend-with-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale Devasiri, my friend, with love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"129\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"127\">Vale Devasiri, my friend, with love &#8211; By\u00a0Dr Sanjay Jayasinghe<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em data-start=\"2105\" data-end=\"2147\"><br data-start=\"2126\" data-end=\"2129\" \/><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149184 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vale-Devasiri.jpg\" alt=\"Vale Devasiri\" width=\"600\" height=\"564\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"328\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-149185\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sanjay-8059_v2.jpg\" alt=\"Sanjay\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"328\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">God takes those he loves early, they say,<\/span><br data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"175\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">But Devasiri, machan, we wanted dearly for you to stay,<\/span><br data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"233\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">We journeyed life together, from age seven,<\/span><br data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"279\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">You though must say now \u2018I beat you to heaven.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"330\" data-end=\"570\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Memories flow, some fresh, others many years ago,<\/span><br data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"382\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Through Colombo across Sydney and with hours in Nadi too,<\/span><br data-start=\"439\" data-end=\"442\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Year one school play, your now famous portrayal, a mother,<\/span><br data-start=\"500\" data-end=\"503\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Your desk at class entrance, in year ten, being to us gatekeeper!<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"793\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Approaching school bell, that customary grooming you begin,<\/span><br data-start=\"631\" data-end=\"634\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Then the school bus, as hunk and star you reign,<\/span><br data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"685\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Maverick though you were, appointed class monitor,<\/span><br data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"738\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u2018Tis when we saw emerging in you the fearless leader!<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"1011\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Academic focus switch you did turn on eventually,<\/span><br data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"847\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">My impressing you upon that, often you recall, gratefully,<\/span><br data-start=\"905\" data-end=\"908\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The uni, the career, the lot followed smoothly,<\/span><br data-start=\"955\" data-end=\"958\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">We witnessed you fly high, soaring, even literally!<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1013\" data-end=\"1241\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Years went by, you made your own family foursome,<\/span><br data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1065\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Enter Sydney, more memories we made so awesome,<\/span><br data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1115\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Your girl, your boy, your pride, whom we see lots of you in,<\/span><br data-start=\"1175\" data-end=\"1178\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">And your loving, selfless, caring, admired by us all, Yenlin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1243\" data-end=\"1494\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Those fun times at the De Silvas\u2019 Sydney abode we savour,<\/span><br data-start=\"1300\" data-end=\"1303\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Your knack for attention to detail, the humour and banter,<\/span><br data-start=\"1361\" data-end=\"1364\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Reminiscing again, over and over, those moments time stood still,<\/span><br data-start=\"1429\" data-end=\"1432\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Promise me machan, look down, when next we gather, you will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1496\" data-end=\"1691\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">When that disease cruel slowly your body bound,<\/span><br data-start=\"1543\" data-end=\"1546\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Where machan, you that valour, grit and fight find?<\/span><br data-start=\"1597\" data-end=\"1600\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Will now miss the trips with mob to Waterloo,<\/span><br data-start=\"1645\" data-end=\"1648\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">To spend another evening machan with you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1693\" data-end=\"1875\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Exit this world, one day we all will face,<\/span><br data-start=\"1735\" data-end=\"1738\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">You, ran well, beating us still here, that race;<\/span><br data-start=\"1786\" data-end=\"1789\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Leaving us today not to grieve or mourn,<\/span><br data-start=\"1829\" data-end=\"1832\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Celebrate instead you and from you learn!<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1877\" data-end=\"2103\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">When I am done here, be it whenever,<\/span><br data-start=\"1913\" data-end=\"1916\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Will meet on that beautiful shore to part never,<\/span><br data-start=\"1964\" data-end=\"1967\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Welcome me with an \u2018ado Sanna\u2019 and sweet smile only you know how,<\/span><br data-start=\"2032\" data-end=\"2035\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Vale Devasiri, good bye my friend, with love, though only for now!<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1877\" data-end=\"2103\">\n<p data-start=\"2105\" data-end=\"2149\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em data-start=\"2105\" data-end=\"2147\">Dr Sanjay Jayasinghe<br data-start=\"2126\" data-end=\"2129\" \/>Sydney, Australia<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2105\" data-end=\"2149\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/elanka-newsletter-sign-up\/\" 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