Her New Day

For the woman the world had turned a huge and restless black night The trees of mango stood at her window looking like black skeletons Though the time was for the flowers to be in its deep green threshold For its fulfillment into the mighty flavour of deliciously dulcet freedom Her newly-born baby was missing from the hospital's maternity ward The whole hospital got into a tizzy over the said child lifting incident With more and more intense gloom gathering over the petrified bed Sat a still statue of black stone from starless dark and dense night Assurance found no soil in the stone to come out in a green sprout Milk filled gentle breast kept crying in the core of unsatiated desire In the dead of night a nurse came close to the bed in a tempest of void The one day old baby smiled like jasmine held in her arms like a swing The police recovered him from a nearby six storied apartment complex A childless woman had stolen the baby to quench her thirst for warmth The new day snatched from the new mom was thus given back to her In the very dark night the mother shimmered in the emerging warm sun This gradually turned into the morning glory of tuberose in a bush of joy Cherry and chocolate larks came hopping in the new day's golden face In the middle of sobbing night the new day opened the door of ecstasy She told all that she had never had such a seagull like new day before __________________________________________________________ 18 March,2017