Answer Now(Yama)
The Yama is named for the Hindu god of death
The Yama is:
syllabic, written in 6 syllable lines.
stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
rhymed, rhyme scheme x a x a, x being unrhymed.
a poem of death, grief or sorrow. It can be expanded to include simply a poem of loss. (even of a season)
titled.
Answer Now
Somewhere invisible
Beyond my sight you've gone
How I'm hurt here this day-
You don't know how I'm done
You could have thought about
How I would be trapped ill
Knowing you were dying
Could have said by your will
'Not to go by the rites
To be a bad omen
Not to be a widow
Disreputed human
But let to cherish you
With kumkum and thaali
In sweet thoughts of our life-'
You could have said rightly
Oh my dear sweet husband
But you did not, did not
I couldfeel your ailing
That illness gave a lot
I could read your mind too
How you tried to set right
All things ere your last breath
With throes of death- fright
Listen my dear husband
I don't mean to blame you
Of worst fear it's a plea
In hopes for a rescue
In hopes for a rescue
May my words be a plea
For any in future
Not this treatment should be
And I'm scared on my death
Of a disparity
Of a crude embalming
A shameful verity
Now answer my husband
Oh my dear sweet husband
Had you said it all
Would have all this been banned
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Verily, a heart touching poem