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Mother

MOTHER
Mother lived alone in a different distant city I had asked her to come and live with me She said she‘d come when time would come When from unfinished duties it’d make her free I waited long hoping that time I’d someday see. Mother didn’t come, couldn’t keep her promise She had to answer some other call I didn’t realize She now smiles in a framed photo I have on the wall Looking at me with the familiar glint in her eyes That brightens my day when in the morning I rise. When the morning isn’t so bright and the mind gloomy I take a glassful of limy gin instead of cupful of coffee Inebriated vision blurred I find the wall disappear From the picture frame mother comes out I can see She says smiling she has come now to live with me. I ask her why didn’t she come sometime early I can’t talk, don’t know why I’m feeling sleepy.
March 2, 2018.

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Date: 3/4/2018 6:58:00 PM
Wow, Subimal: Touching subject. Lovingly expressed; lovely expression...Chilling ending, at least for me = Moving poem. Thank you for an intriguing write. Best wishes, Gershon Wolf
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
Date: 3/5/2018 12:10:00 AM
Thank you, Gershon.
Date: 3/2/2018 6:38:00 AM
a lovely poem of the sensitive mind ... Liked much ...
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
Date: 3/2/2018 10:52:00 AM
Thank you so much for liking and for your appreciation. I value your comments.

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