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My Aged Mother
Dr Sonia Batra Septuaganerian ( between 70 to 79 years)

Dr Sonia Batra is a dentist by profession and writer by compulsion. In her sleep...
In her wrinkles...
You have seen her in many anthologies, Notable amongst them are...
I see an innocence of a child
Genius, Break the Silence, Crossroads and many more. She has been Etched there
awarded by govt of Seychelles, Khazakistan and Peru. She has numerous Creamy complexion long bygone
publications in online magazines Absolutely beautiful, as she snores
Me oozing out of her every pore...
I resemble her so..
Yess, I see a child in her
In her faltering step
Will She Be Able To I hold her now...

Like she held me...
Will she be able to love again In my childhood
Tattered n tortured, will she seek again In my teens, umpteen times
Will she be able to hear the song of her heart Guiding me through my life
Will she be able to possess someone again... In her forgetfulness...
OR... I see her busy finding my shoes, pyjamas, my stockings and my pencil and my compass
She will just drift away Now I find her keys, her spects and her slippers, that tend to slip under bed, a torture...
On the waves of time n sea For her bend back and rheumatoid arthritis
Never capturing the moment I try to listen to her excited blabbering which she repeats and repeats...
Always shying away.... Like she listened patiently to my every storm, laughter and weep
Will she ever commit again.... Yess sometimes, she drools
Will she ever fall as romantic rains Like a baby does...
Over hearts, her soul sauntered for Now I wipe her face
Or she will always be lost Sometimes her hand trembles a lot
In whirlpools of Rights n Wrongs... I feed her, holding her spoon
Will her heart ever soak in love again Yess now I give her crumbs, due to her bad teeth, like she fed me on soft portions
Or she would tarry over the past When I had no teeth..
Sticking to dead moments, in refrain... Now in my love of her
More unstable than stable... Crusts I love to eat...
Will she ever complain... In her stubbornness, in her distress
Will she ever be selfish again... I so see a child in her...
Will she ever ask him, to feel her love Who just wants a listening ear...
As It Is... Best toy for her
Till Eternity... Love and coziness...
Or is it too much to ask once again... Her security and secures
Yess she wants a fixed deposit of cares
@Sonia Batra But whatever I do for her...
It is nothing, before what she did for me...
That's the power of selfless love of a Mother...
Yess today I'm a mother
I can so feel that selfless love
In my body, in my soul
@Sonia Batra

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