Poem: Today is Mother’s Day
A flurry of poems, this one, flowed from my heart.
Poem: Today is Mother’s Day
What more can I write about you?
It is time for me to go over the hill.
I see more meaning in a sunset now
I have seen you go beyond the horizon
My eyes have stayed there since
The blushing orange, pink, and purple
Slowly merging with the darkness
The first night without you —
I walked with my brother, mother
The longest ever in a night
If I could be with you, I would
For I did not face the next sunrise
Yet, today, it is three years without you
Life is cruel, and it goes on —
Probably you just left me behind
To relive those moments
That you stood by me —
Protecting my blissfulness
against this wicked world.
I see another mother
The one I married to —
I have never seen a human
More powerful than you.
The superhuman strengths
Wrapped in unblemished love
A love that sees more good than right
I am proud that my progeny
Gets the same privilege as me
A living divine that I can see
On this day, and every other —
There is no divine like Mother.
~Ashok Subramanian © 2024
