Sometimes, when I laugh too hard and sing too loud,
I wonder, if you wonder have I forgotten you,
Time have changed, Ma,
There’s no meal on the table covered with a plate,
No impatient voice calling my name,
Your favourite sofa, where the dog lay by your feet,
Is where I sometimes find myself sitting, gazing at our home
from different angles,
Plumping up cushions, wiping layers of blatant dust settled on your
photo-frame.
Times have changed, Ma,
The house looks the same but there are gaps in it,
Invisible gaps that can’t be filled,
Yet, I feel your goodness in the air,
In the shaking of trees and flowing of tears,
Times have changed, Ma, I have changed,
I feel your presence everywhere. |
| Ma |
8 comments:
No, I don't wonder my doll,
For I always imagined you laughing too hard,
And I always heard you sing too loud,
For I always saw around you the goodness that shrouds.
You're my heart walking outside, my child,
I still sit on that sofa, I now eat from your plate,
I love when you clean the photo-frame,
For you know how dust bothered me,
But far more, I know you haven't changed,
Because I know you more than I know me.
There are no gaps, the house and I are the same,
Through the cracks of time are blowing the winds of change,
How dearly I love to see you laugh,
You taken care of, you singing loud is what I ask,
Of course you see me everywhere because I am in you,
I lived for you and I live for you, and will always do.
First time on your blog and I almost cried reading this!
@ Animesh, you are kind and extremely talented! Thank you so much for writing such wonderful lines. Deeply touched :)
oh! How touching. There is this entire universe in one word 'MA'
Have tears in my eyes. Nothing can fill that gap except for memories and the fact she is alive in your heart.
@Sukku, what a lovely statement, 'there's an entire universe on one word Ma'. Bless you!
@Saru,as always you have put it very nicely, 'alive in my heart' :)
Touched.
In your words, I see Saint Kabir everywhere. So clear, so real and so alive.
Our prayers, God, and Ma are always with you.
warm regards
Dearest Mukesh, thank you for your magnanimity. Overwhelmed and very grateful to you :)
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