On Mother's Day Poem by Bashyam Narayanan

On Mother's Day

Mother
More a feeling than a relation

A feeling mother only knows
None others, even other mothers
Can even fathom
What a feeling of care and love
Is through a mother's mind

Your mother can sense
Your pain even before your perceive it
She can make out your thirst
Even before your system reports it to you
She knows you are hungry
Even before you stomach tells you that
She knows the dangers ahead
In your path even before you visualize them
She would have bled for you
Even before the knife you are holding makes it cut
She can notice the thorns on your path
Even before you run over them
She know the pits ahead in your route
Where you step in and fall
She knows each stone in your way
Which has a potential to make you stumble upon
She is all knowing
When it comes to difficulties
Her children might face in the days to come

It took decades, to be specific,
More than half a century
For me to understand mother's greatness
As I lost her way, long way, back
I am witnessing the care
My children get from their mother
We may be deprived of anything
But not of mother's soothing affection

May be children these days
Realize less of these
But sure they end up appreciating later when grown
And attain parenthood

A mother is a mother
No one can replace her
As she expects nothing
For the love she showers

Bad children do come
But never never a bad mother
Not my words
But of Adi Shankara

कुपुत्रो जायेत क्वचिदपि कुमाता न भवति