TO MY MOTHER : Pir Abdul Gani

TO MY MOTHER 

Pir Abdul Gani

‘Tis thou where the ogin of love streameth,

‘Tis thou where the beauty of the world floweth,

‘Tis thou whose absence maketh the being unbeing,

‘Tis thou whose breaths render the sightless far-seeing.

Thy every move yieldeth warmth, peace and calm.

Thy voice, so soothing, and thy self, en-aplomb.

Altruism incarnated, and self-sacrifice thy trait.

Oh! I could sacrifice self for that motherly gait!

Mother! Thou didst thy blood, sweat and tears,

Thy blood, in our Form, long for thy Fairs.

For all that thou giveth, how shall I pay thee?

Shall melt like an ice, but can’t I get free,

From the favours and blisses, endows of thine.

Encastled was my life, and the home was shrine.

When there seemed no one, sure there wast thou,

To care, to caress, to pat and to love.

Ne’er didst thou let any despond b’fall,

Ever and anon, took the brunt of one and all.

Thy life of purity made thoughts animate,

And let our torturous agonies placate.

Sure, was there peace and content all around,

Oh! How the times, I wish, would get rewound!

Yearn for the halcyon days with a wistful gaze,

The repose, the calm, and thy smiling bouquets.

Bore for us, pangs and pains, so taut and huge,

Stoic and unswerving, braving the deluge.

Serene voice of thine, for too much I long,

My days and my nights now, not worth a song.

The Heavenish Heights! Thy Love, no adulteration,

Those days of balm, calm and many celebration.

Paragoned sky virtues, thy heart untouched by vices,

Serenity, simplicity and down-to-earth nices.

Forgotten not those suffered pangs, tingles so acute. 

And thy ocean of sufferance to fight the Brute.

Right and clear in my mind, the smiling face of thine.

Emotional release – elixir to the sick heart of mine.

Alas! Ye went quick to journey upward,

Left us to bear the plunge in the downward.

 

‘Lord! Here I am, supplicative with the hands spread,

Take her in Thy Blessed Shade, with Elysian Fields ahead’.

(Pir Abdul Gani is a postgraduate in English. He began his career in private schools, served as a contractual Lecturer in English at GDC Handwara in 2003, and has been a Government teacher since 2005, currently posted at UPS Maratgam.)