A Love Child Poem by Akhtar Jawad

A Love Child

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The welfare trust has many stories,
I can tell you one that shattered my heart,
A boy of twenty grown up in the trust,
Never knew his parents but was keen to know,
He became a friend of a clerk of the trust,
Obliged the clerk in so many ways,
And one day with tears in his thirsty eyes,
He asked the clerk, can you help me my friend,
I want to know whose child I am,
Who brought me here and left me alone,
You can find it out by checking the records,
You are custodian of the files that are secret for others,
The obliged clerk could not say no and started the fatigue,
Going through the records in the dusty stores,
After a painful survey of registers so old,
He found out the name of the woman,
Who brought this child in a night to the trust,
He gave to the boy her name and address.
The hungry thirsty helpless boy,
Who was never loved and never saw the breast,
Remained deprived of lullaby of his mother,
Whenever fell sick none combed his hairs,
With the soothing fingers to make him sleepy,
Unaware he grew what a caress is meant,
No parents or grandparents no sisters no brothers,
No lovely aunts that look like mothers,
A child, whose birthday was never celebrated,
He was grown up as a living robot,
But the instincts did not spare the poor child,
He knew what love is and he wanted to love,
He knew how to make someone a friend.

The boy took the address and with lot of hopes,
He reached at a slum and questioned many,
She was not there and nobody knew,
Where she has gone and what happened to her,
Meanwhile an old man when heard of him,
Came to the boy and caressed him,
I knew your mother her husband was my friend,
He was a taxi driver and died in accident,
His beautiful wife while carrying you,
Was gang raped and after that,
She was never seen but after few months,
Her dead body was found that was lying on the beach,
The boy burst into tears then suddenly smiled,
Thanks God I am not, not a dirty love child!

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
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COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Bisma Mirza 16 November 2014

I really like this poem..... Best (y) Beautiful one

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Salini Nair 18 November 2014

He was grown up as a living robot, .............all orphans bear the same grief...great write sir

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Heather Wilkins 17 November 2014

a story well told so sad and heart breaking plays with ones emotions

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Khalida Bano Ali 17 November 2014

A heart touching poem...............10

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Saheb Mohapatra 17 November 2014

emotions at their best............well composed...........thanks

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Hazel Durham 16 November 2014

A sad and thought provoking write what a terrible chain of events, that boy found out the truth that will set him free to know he was wanted, but what happened to that poor woman was too hard for her to bear! Beautiful write!

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