EVALUATIVE

 

EVALUATIVE

 

Essay life scripts are invisible,

Mind dictated all along neatly,

How often the heart was rebellious,

Protesting spirit paralyzing limbs,

Grumbles life desires intensity,

Promoting anger in veins rushing,

Unwilling to leave sweet home,

Leaving the better half longer cruelly,

Somber, her pale face hiding tears,

The half-ajar bedroom looked silently,

Her eyes pointed transfixed, staring,

Matching eye ball to eye ball a second,

Devastated, heartbroken, evaded now,

Unblinking, her bright eyes signaled,

Communicating a thousand messages,

Don't leave dear, sweet home at all,

Look at children understand, sadly,

Know their father leaving for a long,

Longing desperately for cancellation,

Intolerable absence of Papa sobbing,

Controlling their best crying frigid,

Opened the front door was raining,

Summer is leaving rain clouds,

The entire sky turned dark and dampened,

The street is submerged under water,

Not a pedestrian visible or traffic,

Carried heavy luggable on the back,

Fearing not to look behind, leave quickly,

Knew heart melt, to watch kids,

That was a sad evening got soaked,

Walked miles to pick up the bus,

Hundreds of miles away got a job,

Assured of good income, best luck,

Realized earnings can change fate,

From abject poverty to a luxurious life,

Never thought of self-comfort,

Children will be lucky to get an education,

Dreaming children will be officers,

Wished should not be a cycle mechanic,

Let not daughter be a domestic worker,

Her progress in her study offers opportunities,

She will be educated, wealthy, working,

Her husband is a handsome man,

Reputed family well-known accept,

Felt tears on the bus thinking,

Must leave my shop for good,

Work in the distant city get plenty of,

Wife no more will work at houses,

For domestic-servant, a tag will be erased,

She will cook food well, feed children,

Get new dresses for her and the kids,

The home will have a television, fridge,

Cooking gas kitchen new life,

Electricity fan electric light,

Children will be reading comfortably,

Plenty of books, paper, utilities,

No problem with school fees to attend,

That was an evening mind rock solid,

Refused pleading heart protesting soul,

Decades after expressing my surprise,

Both children are studying in cities,

Papa, we need money send please,

His wife is alone now in her home,

Leaving the job kids employed,

A pension that can sustain life,

Knocked on the front door surprised her,

Stunned to find me in front,

Told everything decisions evaluative,

Let rest of our life in peace with care,

Support her slim frame, tender limbs,

Help her a life decent and quiet,

Life itself evaluative time dictate.

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Evaluative

Themes: Family life contemplative

Written: 22nd June 2023, Cuttack

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