Absence Multiplied Poem by Gautam Sen

Your withdrawn existence is
Desolately felt once again today
With a renewed intensified grief
While explaining your absence.

Our pretty little daughter
Now got promoted to her next class
And got her admission.
You her mother have got to know
How I felt my heart broken and hurt.

My stifled voice led my head to nod as I was
Asked to fill Mother's Name in the admission form
Prefixing a tragic ''Late'' to your name -
Else it'd lie incomplete, so I had to comply.

So the school got the completed form
With all their formalities nicely done,
But how could I accomplish the vacant space
Lying in despair in my life's own format?

[ This is a poem written on April 12,2005 at the time of formalities being done by me while getting my daughter's admission to Secondary School. Her mother expired in October,2004 - just a few months back; so while filling her name as mother in the admission form, you can well imagine my sad feelings inside and that is what exactly written in the poem.]