Edasseri Govindan Nair Poems

I too had a mother
When a King bought me, a slave,
She was given a price, a few coins
She tied them to my apron-strings
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O Weakness!
When Thou attains motherhood
Even the arch enemies are there
Not to kill, but to swing the cradle
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Obscure lies the green pond
Slime coated dark.
Like a place in ruin tragic
Under the moss of sad neglect.
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No debt bothers me now
No balance left for
Tomorrow's shopping either
The thief will sneer at me
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Who in the last season had sown
The Aryan seeds in this field with love?
When the hot sun of March burned
Rain - fire above, red embers below,
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'Everything is fate'
That was father's faith;
He had nothing to do but wait.
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No place for weeping in the flow of Time,
It is not for weeping over, you gave us riches.

Light, Water, Air, Heaven and Hade,
Countless solar systems-all thy playthings
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