BOU, ONCE AGAIN YOU……..

BOU, ONCE AGAIN YOU……..

Bou, once again you flashed into my weak and flimsy memory

Rushed into my heart’s so impervious, inaccessible and ugly cells

Echoed with your ever loving, caring, pampering and sharing tales

Enlivening your unforgettable and unthinkable sacrifice-story!

Bou, once again you stretched your invisible and surrendering hands

To run from my offensive, ungrateful forehead to the self-centred toes

To infuse life with your lively, heavenly and blissful love bonds

To purify my repulsive, junk mind with your pious presence like a Rose!

Bou, once again you opened my soiled, blurred and cataracted vision

To think of you and your unalloyed, unparalleled and supra-mundane love

To remind me, “To forget divine Bou is worse than a treacherous treason

That is past all ineffective excuses like penance, remorse or repentant sob!”

Bou, once again you lighted the bleak, sombre and dismal recess of my heart

To condemn myself and adore you, and eulogize your inimitably glorious part

To feel myself ashamed of, and suffocated by my abhorrent, gluttonous ingratitude

To pray to God not to curse any Womb with a son with my abominable attitude!”

 *BOU - Mother [in Odia, the poet's Mother tongue]

* flimsy – weak/poor

* impervious – impermeable/ not moved

* inaccessible - unreachable  

* offensive – hateful

* repulsive – disgusting/hateful

* pious presence – noble/virtuous presence

* penance, remorse or repentant sob - self-punishment, regret or apologetic cry

* bleak– desolate

*sombre - dull

* dismal – gloomy

* abhorrent, gluttonous ingratitude - hateful, greedy thanklessness

* abominable attitude – detestable/hateful manner/approach

N.B: This poem is inspired by H.W Longfellow’s poem “The Village Blacksmith.” The poet's mother, who is now 75, lives alone in his village, At/post Tadas Ramahans Pur, Ps. Chandan Pur, Dist. Puri, Odisha, India

©Shankar D Mishra 06.08.2017

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