HER SHADE

 

HER SHADE

 

Apprehended the future young,

Felt parents acted, ideas wrong,

They decided, for retired parents,

Sold property, business, events, (1)

 

Stayed with their parents serve,

Lost father his earning yet love,

He saw that his father passed soon,

Few years with grandkid boon, (2)

 

Evening time, sleeping on a couch,

Kids listen to mythological touch,

Happy with the elder son, his family,

Grandma happy with kids simply, (3)

 

How soon their home was empty,

The youth knew his teenage pity,

Departure of grandparents sadly,

Father tried for a job earn madly, (4)

 

His past the flourished business,

Found father labor situation depress,

Few and far between earning idle,

Young life clipped thrills, middle, (5)

 

Education, the prime hope to survive,

Scholarship, loans, studies thrive,

Grace of God, meritorious the result,

Career was easily achievable, host, (6)

 

Supporting parents, a critical time,

Siblings grew in time, settled fine,

Shade the mother her sacrifices,

Nostalgic birthday love surfaces, (7)

 

Her countless prayers, restless,

Without money, children press,

The family burden annual crop,

Rice the factor living only hope, (viii)

 

Her struggle to maintain family,

Never failed in birthdays acts happily,

She prepares cakes, dishes a lot,

Reminiscent, my birthday escort, (9)

 

Her hopes and prayers were fulfilled,

Stark depravity, children shield,

Mother, her shade graceful kind,

Past years growing, times remind, (10)

 

She has never asked for comfort,

Father passed out suddenly but,

Mother's care, concern, added soft,

Disobedience to her hurt, worst,(11)

 

Decades since father missed,

Lived with children only wished,

Children have homes, separate,

Year around she visits rotate, (12)

 

Happy to watch, her kids stable,

Her life of poverty missed, able,

Children with kids are growing,

Grandkids alluring for her sing, (13)

 

Advanced age, once fallen, crisis,

She survived, sick, in paralysis,

The youth is no more young life,

Shade of mother presence strife, (14)

 

Bedridden, immobile and forgetful,

The youth is seventy years old, tearful,

Today's birthday, her shade absent,

No one to solemnize a dark event. (15)

 

Mother was seventeen years old,

Her delivery day fasting day hold,

Fast without food by evening, a kid,

She delivered to her eldest child. ( 16)

 

She withstood immense pain, silent,

Mother, her sacrifices, her life, resilient,

She is the Lord's image first teacher,

Seventy-two years passed kid's prayer. (17)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Her Shade

Themes: The shade of the mother reminds

Written: 18th September 2023, Cuttack

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