Her Silent Longing
The young woman returned home
with her baby
promised never to go back
to her husband's house.
But after some days
she left with another man.
Her younger brother adopted her son.
He grew up and got a goverment job.
After which one day he married
Then as an aged woman
she came quietly and wept
in a secluded room.
Time moves: a grandchild was born.
She would come quietly some times
to see the baby,eager to cradle him.
One day she was seriously ill
but her son from her first marriage
did not come to her bedside.
She died of the illness.
Copyright © Soibam Pramodini Devi | Year Posted 2025
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