Fatalistic destiny

Merciless jaws of death

Perished my soul

As you departed

For your heavenly abode Mum.

Sheer helplessness

 A throbbing open wound

I nursed

 To let steely reality sink in.

Vanished

Are the are corridors

 Of motherly love

Endless phone calls

 Non stop tete a tete

The wisdom and gossip

Have died behind impregnable walls of death.

All that remains

 Is your picture on my wall

At vantage point

 Where I catch your glimpse

 A hundred times a day

Death, I defy you

 Fashion a novel feat

Ransacking every corner

Of my home

Greedily

Holding on to

Every picture of you.

Blissful hours spent

Writing a fitting obituary

Even more hours

 Designing the album “Maa”.

Now my wounds don’t yell

 Am at ease despite your silence

As I have captured you

 Both in my life

And my heart.