When I Lost My Mother Poem by Charnjit Patialvi

With a question in my eyes,
Looking up to the skies,
Searching for a affirmative,
For whom I was very possessive,
My heart wanted to cry,
Near to her, where she lies,
Things suddenly changed,
Like a storm that has raged,
All my musings came down crashing,
Her nerves were not flashing,
My combined emotions betrayed,
My thoughts failed and breathing delayed,
My confidence shattered,
Mind got wild and jittered,
My world came down crumbling,
Tongue was trembling,
My mother, lay motionless,
On the bed in casualty ward,
The doctors giving the impulse,
Failed to find her pulse,
His dejected looks made us frightened,
A fear of loosing a revered one,
My empire of love lay conquered,
My childhood castle disintegrated in seconds,
Wondering where has my mother gone?
Why ‘s she so still? Not even the slightest murmur I hear,
Why the gloomy look she bears,
Is this it is all? I feared,
Why I wanted to cry?
Why I could’nt believe its all over?
My dearest of dear lay as dead,
The happiness had all fled,
The truth was in front of me,
That all had lost for me.
The shoulders on which I grew,
And arms that cared for me went cold I knew,