She too had a reason to cry.



She wept, the mother,
The daughter's marriage was a hybrid.
By the current levels
No more than a sudden pinprick!

Yet she wept, the mother,
The sudden sweep she couldn't bear.
From under her feet
Sands eroded in a fleet.

She wept, the mother,
She had duly forewarned.
The daughter did not bother,
She replied: I have finally resolved.

With just two witnesses
The daughter completed the process.
The world congratulated her and said:
'Really a marvelous achievement! '.

She still wept, the widowed mother,
She felt a deep torment.
Is love so blind and deaf?
Or is her daughter so inclined and adamant?

Did her tears have any tenor,
Only a tuppence the parental care meant?
Was her daughter carried away by storms
what the society considered concurrent norms?

Love, marriage, dating, and sex,
The mother in her could not reconcile.
Decades were painting a soft dream,
She too had a reason to cry and scream.
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Love, marriage, dating, and sex, The mother in her could not reconcile. Decades were painting a soft dream, She too had a reason to cry and scream.

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Written on July 31, 2017

Submitted by ravi_panamanna on December 27, 2023

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Scheme Axbx axcc Axax xxxd aexd aeff xxggb
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 952
Words 189
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5

Ravi Panamanna

My actual name is Subramanian A. I am a retired official of the State Bank of India. Settled in Palakkad, Kerala, India. My literary awards include The Barath Award for Literature (best story), and the Poiesis Awards both in Poetry and short story, all conducted jointly by Xpress publications.com. My interests cover photography, philosophy, and science. Google search under Ravi Panamanna would take the searcher to my various links. more…

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