Poetry

  They have helped me forge a path ahead when the route upfront was unclear They have aided me to ascend, to scale when the strife of life I could not bear. They held me together, aided and assisted; they embraced my flagging spirits. They prodded, pushed and shoved; made …

Warming his hands by the pitiful flame he looked up and smiled. “Maa, how did you know that I was cold?” he asked his mother. “I’m your mother. I just know.” His mother smiled as she replied. “I know when you need comfort, when you feel under the weather.”   …

There are times when I am out in the hot sun, sweating And a stray tuft of cottony cloud will momentarily Take pity on me and blow gently to cover the sun briefly. At such times I think, “Maybe it’s a sign that God cares.”   There are times when …

As I leave your bosom and embark on this journey I know not if I shall return to your fold. I know only that I leave one mother to go serve another, That I leave to protect both you and her.   You birthed me mother; you gave me my …

It took someone like you to bring out the someone in me. It took someone like you to help me open my eyes to see, That the only experience in life more beautiful even than life Was the joy of motherhood and not the joy of being a wife.   …

  Long back I promised myself, a much younger version of me That I would respect myself, that I would always to it see That I did the things that I wanted to do; what was expected. But would also do the things I loved even if they were unexpected. …

Maa called today to say, “I am selling our old bungalow that you grew up in. It’s too much upkeep for an old woman. You should come by, visit and see if there is anything that holds a memory, anything that you would like to keep.” I listened in sad …

Even if they tried, they would probably still never be able to see. Not because they do not have eyes, they do; but because even Though God Saw it fit to endow them with eyes, he did not give Them the deeper sight of love, tolerance and equanimity.   Such …

  My mother always said, “Treat marriage as a partnership. It will have its good days and bad; highs and lows. But like all partnerships that are a hundred percent Relationship; your onus is a fifty percent of this hundred.”   I was young yet, I did not fully comprehend …

  “So what did you learn from your visit to Earth?” God asked eagerly to the angel he had sent. “Do my children love each other? Do they live in peace? Do they respect the world I created for them?” he queried.   The angel answered with sadness. “My Lord! …