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.
Copyright © Subimal Sinha-Roy | Year Posted 2018
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