The Mayor of Lourdes, <br />A man of business, <br />On the spring, had an eye, <br />That meant a lot of money. <br /> <br />Within the Municipal limit, <br />It so happened to exist, <br />That the state had no claim <br />In his wishful scheme. <br /> <br />In a day, it gave a hundred <br />And twenty-two thousand <br />Liters of mineral water, <br />That may even go up later. <br /> <br />If the water was bottled <br />And in the market sold, <br />It would bring more gold <br />From all o’er the world. <br /> <br />This plan never he told <br />Even to his close friend, <br />Who tested the sample <br />That was sent in a bottle. <br /> <br />While he dreamt of this plan, <br />To go rich in the long run, <br />The Lady had another one, <br />That opposed his own <br /> <br />To say, that was a bad time <br />Louise wasn’t at home <br />When her neighbor’s child <br />Was almost in death bed. <br /> <br />Croisine Bouhouhorts, <br />In the absence of Louise, <br />Did everything possible <br />But the death was visible. <br /> <br />No other way she could find, <br />When a flash stuck her mind, <br />And she ran with the child, <br />To the spring, at the far end. <br /> <br />She immersed her son, <br />At the rim of its basin, <br />When the water, icy-cold, <br />Almost froze his blood <br /> <br />The people around cried <br />She was killing her child, <br />But her faith in the Lady, <br />Gave her mind no worry. <br /> <br />Instead of facing death <br />It was totally a rebirth <br />To her son, who cried <br />Like a new-born child. <br /> <br />Then she took him home, <br />And in his bed, laid him <br />The whole day he slept <br />Free from convulsive fit. <br /> <br />In his life, as a first act, <br />Next day, he himself sat, <br />That was quite impossible, <br />Without the Lady’s miracle. <br /> <br />The medical fraternity <br />Thought of a possibility <br />That the cold hydrotherapy <br />Had revived him normally. <br /> <br />However, for the people, <br />It was the first miracle <br />That occurred in Lourdes, <br />Breaking the scientific barriers.<br /><br />Rajaram Ramachandran<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a22-one-more-miracle/
