O! Mother Poem by Vivek Haldar

O! Mother, Who calls you a prostitute?
Is someone calling you not chaste!
Is this world now asking you about your purity?
Where was this world when you were drowned into this ocean,
Where were they when they took you as a thing of play?
Weren't you all the victims of Human Needs?
O! Mother You are just another victim of its own fate,
Like the Poet who keeps writing Poems to fill its own grief,
and asks for forgiveness from this unkind world;
O! Mother I have seen you there into the dark slums of Kamathipura,
I have seen you shedding tears upon the births of your daughters,
Who has taken your soul mother?
Why are you not feeling any pain?
Is the enjoyment too overwhelming for you?
Are you like Radha who keeps going to her Krishna?
Are you like Karna's mother who gave birth to him?
Are you the mother of the Sages who claim an unnatural birth?
What are you O! Mother?
Who are you O! Mother?
Why are you asking about what i am writing Mother?
Will it give you any comfort?
Will it be soothing for your ears?
If Yes, then i am ready to write,
I am ready to write about you,
I am ready to write about your sisters and daughters,
And My pen won't stop till i have portrayed each one of you,
And then claim the silent Death of a Poet!