Searching The Meaning - Mother Poem by Gajanan Mishra

Mother
Gajanan Mishra

Mother is there
Mother is here.
Yet I search mother,
I search for her last word,
I search meaning
There of
Stay blessed
'budha hei thaa'.
True,
No substitute,
I am here
Just to remember.

2

And my mother
Left me,
Made me an orphan.

No substitute,
Alas, see the mother
How I cry
For you.

Excuse me,
I had given you
Much trouble.

You,
Only you,
Unique.

Dear mother,
You were/
You are
Inside me
Always.

See,
I am here,
What I am.

3

Mother, mother
Where are you
At present
And in which form
That I know not.

But mother
I am sure
You are here
With me
So long as
I am alive


On this earth.

Mother, dear mother,
I am your
Good for nothing son,
And yet you were
Speaking and
Had given blessing
Buddha hei thaa.

Copy right - Gajanan Mishra
Tapoban, Titilagarh, Balangir
Odisha, India