Saturday, October 09, 2021

Poem of the week: The Wife of Usher’s Well

 She was  a wealthy woman

of  care  and  caution and pure,

Who had brought up her  gifts,

three sons, whom she bestowed,

personal care and affection

unalloyed all along.

When one morning they left home

Hopefully for better prospects,

She waited with cool and positive

Patience, her  home always with prayers

and  chanting both morn and eve.


Whereabouts of three  she is yet to know

Some said,   could be they were drowned,

Some opined, they were abroad,

 Some felt, collective business loss,

Hence, they would return after a long,

 Northward would she always pray,

 For the return of her blessed three;

She woke up from sleep and anxiety,

“That her children would come 

but will not stay along,”    was  it a mystery,

Or weird, a prediction from far off?

Her motherly affection wants 

at least once their face, their smile,

Their company, rest, leaving it to Time.





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