As I walked alone in Life, <br />Enquiring the meaning of grief, <br />With accompanying twilight waft, <br />Under dim sky full of blinking stars, <br />Forgetting my Mother’s warning, <br />I entered a risky path but charming! <br /> <br />Not even a few steps…I went. <br />A deadly thorn pricked my foot! <br />As I yelled and moaned, <br />As I swelled and hobbled, <br />As I repented my oversight, <br />She rushed to me straight! <br /> <br />Taking another thorn in Her swift hand, <br />Holding gently my foot then bled, <br />She jabbed the pressing thorn by another! <br />It was more painful and much sorer! ! <br />But, I ought to go through with cooperation, <br />For soon there will be relief after operation! <br /> <br />Thus all pains and sorrows of living, <br />Are to be borne with total yielding, <br />For She the most sympathetic strives, <br />To remove all our noxious karmas! <br /> <br />Bear with valor as far as you can <br />Any poverty, any befallen sin, <br />Any disease, any separation, <br />Any humiliation, any dejection, <br />Even death approaching… <br />Bear with total surrender! <br />After all these are nothing but, <br />Waiting to see a glorious light, <br />Following a long gloomy night! <br /> <br />She is the Mother of all creatures! <br />She never gives poison to one kid, <br />And sweet porridge to another kid! <br />Just look at your bowl and drink! <br />Even if it is bitter, it is for your betterment! 210308<br /><br />Raman Savithiri<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/942-mother-removes-a-pressing-thorn-by-another-thorn-210308/
