I Want Her Back
I didn’t know why on us the sky suddenly fell,
but in the surging storm of '47 we got uprooted,
and like the floating logs of wood we drifted
until she found a distant unsure land for us
to grow and live again.
Times were real hard,
under the scorching sun and spewing squall
she toiled for years and built for us a home,
used her soiled hands to construct my life,
made me what I am.
Soon a time came
when my job forced me to leave her all alone,
she won’t desert the home she toiled to make,
but promised me she would come one day
and live with me.
That day never came,
she left her old home, went to her new abode.
She now lives among the angels in heaven
I would want in a heartbeat to bring her back,
my mother in my home.
October 8, 2018
Contest : Strength Thru Adversity
Sponsor : Gregory R Barden
(Note : This was the most difficult and challenging poem for me to write because I was being constantly swept away in a flood of emotion writing about my mother who toiled so hard in difficult times to make me what I'm today. I struggled to collect pieces for this poem from the collage of her fathomless memory and the words seemed inadequate, failing my feelings.)
Copyright © Subimal Sinha-Roy | Year Posted 2018
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