A  SEARCH  FOR  LOVE               Oh,my dear mother

where are you?

I have been searching

for you,since years...

searching since the day              

you left me alone 

in this wretched world; 

searching for you

seeking your love  

everyday I dreamt of

you,my mother;

I don't know

how did I spend my

childhood;

No one cared me,

no one loved me.

Everyone cursed me instead;

I had no friends ,

I had no relations...

neither to eat nor

to drink;

Even no place to

sleep at night.;

I wept in my loneliness...

Let me say that,

in the midst of 

all my  sadness I found

my  best friend ,

the robbery;

It gave me enough

 to satisfy my  apitite,

gave me enough to wear

and enough to forget

my pain and sorrows;

But, those satisfactions

were transient...

I betrayed myself,

betrayed my heart and soul,

with my disgusting deeds;

There was no one to 

correct me and 

no one to show me

the right path;

All my realisations were

dumped and veiled deep

inside the core of

my heart...

Mother,I don't  know

whether you hear 

this or not;

Now at present

I'm a culprit

sentenced to death.

That one day

I must leave this

world forever; 

If you were with me,

I wouldn't be in

this situation. 

PRIYA MOHANAN