The Outbursts Of A Forlorn Father Poem by Rajendran Muthiah

She had fluttered her wings off;
forgot me and fled away.
While I was watching, enchanting my eyes,
winged she her way out.

No tongue to my listening ears.
No appetite to my tongue.
No memory to my mind.
No sleep even to my shadow.

No more light to this house.
And the cuckoo had left its nest.
No fledgling to my loving grace
and comforting words are no more.

I shut her in my heart.
There I was the unfailing guard.
She broke open the doors!
And spread out her wings!

Had she been, my daughter?
I was her son at heart.
My royal mother had been she!
But she took my life off!