For How Long...? Poem by sundaram chandrakalaadhar

' for how long are you going to be like this? '-

all and sundry have shot the very same question at me-

at times merciless, at times full of concern

which has no answer from me ever-

'o mother, why you alone do not?

is it that i am never bothersome to you? '-

yes, i know, mother your heart bleeds as tears;

what can i do, dear mother?

am i not a mentally unstable creation of god?

-s.chandrakalaadhar