Will I ever forget those hands?
Those gnarled and wrinkled yet the most
lovely loving hands.. hands made to caress
hold and heal soft and compassionate
forever stretched to help those in need..
They're imprinted firmly and forever in my mind
Nimble feet and hands deft, nature's child
Expressive hands like a dancer's and excellent in arts
Stirring the culinary dishes or sponging a child
burning with fever late at night..your tears mixed with mine as I cried through my pangs of puberty
you wiped the sweat off my brow as I went
into my labour pains you held me close and made me promise to return home in case of marital conflict...
Oh mother! you've left a void hard to reconcile...

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My heart sank
No it couldn't be
How could you?

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Evil reigns in god's heaven..
The flowers adorning the ambience
The undulating Valleys glorious mountains brought to naught
smiling and divine defiled and stamped upon turned to dust with unholy glee..
To bare their credentials to prove a point
While the world watched in dismay or
nonchalant satanic impunity
Gouge rip off mutilate annihilate
where it hurts the most
Heaven regained...well have you?
Is this the utopia you seek?
To reconstruct on broken bones
Blood and tears....?

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Puffing and sweating focussed
on one minded track
Dodging the passengers up the stairs and down again
Just as the monster chugged and screeched to a halt beside me.

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Be a leaf and then leave...

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If love finds me again?
Why be so optimistic again?
Once is more than enough
Why grant it another try?
A feeling so cold and wily
Manipulative narcissistic
avoid eye contact ,..
Come what may..
Tis better so.!
Best to be alone...!

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The lone warrior rises stealthily
Peeping through every blade
vanquishing the shadows
that lay in wait, rampantly...
Flushed with victory
Getting more daring he rides
the pinnacle of his glory
Burning with pride and energy...
and then falls back simmering quietly
into the purple haze
No drums roll no trumpets blow
the return of the Victor ....
The Invincible..!

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Promising romance nipped by fate
Rapt eyes professing love
Altruistic impulses very rare yet
You pray for another forgetting ownself
Ernestly wishing the other's welfare
Resilience makes me pray for you promise!

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"Wait ...What's that sound?... Warplanes?"
"My God ! run! it's an earthquake!"
"Myanmar is hit...many are killed or
trapped under the debris!"
"God help them!"
"One building collapsed in Bangkok!"
"What? What about our vacation?"

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Green Gables
29/3/25
Love
This is my last letter to you..
I'm leaving tonight by the last flight..
I'm sorry I couldn't connect earlier..
goodbye and God bless.
My number is always open for you
in case you need to reach me!
As always,
Yours forever,

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