Parting With Daughter..... Poem by RAVIKIRAN ARAKKAL

She was dear to my heart,
An only child, holding
My finger, she walked
and grew up to be a woman,
Never letting her love
Be diminished for her parents,
But time did its work,
Of making her independant,
Who used to travel
In the front of my scooter,
Holding the handlebars,
And on the back when
She grew up. travellimg
Giving directions, cautions
Travelling in the car
To far off distances
Where we made holidays,
She had to ultimately
Depart, part from us
For the studies higher
To a distance
Of seven thousand kilometres,
We parted in sadness
The hearts couln't bear,
Her mother in tears,
But she braving
To a new world of knowledge
And work she felt
Must be accomplished
Even at the cost
Of parting the parental love
Which she so much
Felt had to be carried,
But can't afford
To have at close quarters
For her good of future times.
Even at the cost
Of parental melancholy
Of loosing her proximity.

Ravikiran Arakkal