He Lost Ma And Papa Poem by Vadakkumpurath Ramesan

At times he asks Ma
To move to the land of Papa
He had not seen him
Not have heard his sound
But only knows that his Papa
Is a king in the desert!
The aging Ma longed
To have her groom's presence
And she finally decided
To board the ship
With her lone son
Begotten with the wed-lock
She had at her seventeen
She told her son
That they are on a pilgrimage
To the deserts of a continent
Known not to them
And still alien to them
The voyage to the desert
In the blue sea
That nauseated both
Never held them back
And they both kept the spirit
To see the groom
To see the Papa.
She brood over
The decades back arrival
Of the ship to her hamlet shore
When she was always under veil
And never appear in open.
The traders landed on the shore
And they were the guests
Of her Papa for a short span
The chieftain was young
With Dynamism and spirit
And Papa gave her hand
In marriage to him!
The honey-moon was short
As the groom board
The ship for return!
The ship's siren
Was enough for them
To take note that the desert
Port has sighted.
As they wade through
They spotted armed men
The men of the chieftain
And she could find his groom
And she was accepted by laws
Of the tribe and rejected the son!
As son pleaded with
He was forced out
And boarded the next ship
The agonized Mom
Fell down by wailing
But none heard her pleas
But the whirl-winds of the desert!