From A Husband With Love Poem by rajagopal haran

(Based on the life of a family friend whose wife became visually impaired at the age of 44 and abandoned by the two sons)

Is it the price of my looking?
Every moment of my life
In every movement of the multitude
Seeing the world in your eyes, my fulltime job!

Entering a world unheard of
Honeymoon opening the gates of treasure
Flooding of passions all along
No dearth of kindness in the world of ours
Making explorations of all the parts
We settled for the family way
Brighter days rolling into years
Dwelling in tranquility
Your love and mercy gifted me a son
Hitting the sky in boundless joy
I thanked you profusely
Another gift another son!

Eclipse settled setting darkness
Though clear to outward view of blemish
Bereft of light, seeing forgotten
Jealousy of the world shut your vision!

A stone in the midst of birds
Sufficient to drive them far away
Heirs of our kingdom vanished valiantly
Thanks to the education we imparted
And the soul felt love you injected into their veins!

Potentialities of blindness
Eye for an eye leading to more blindness
Gods give men all good things
Except the baneful and injurious
Have you stumbled into darkness?
Or is it the folly of the Gods?

Our love can never die a natural death
God created the replenishing source
Reminiscing the love in the loved rejoices
Yours cannot be house of night
I am your light holding the candles
The body, which inflamed my lust
Is dressed by me, a different exploration now
Nature bereaves the fate’s favorite child
I will weave your enchanted dreams
Wild and bright with the vignette of colors
You may lack the use of your eyes
I shall not let you feel lack of vision!