Months six over! <br />No crawling, no gurgling, <br />No toddling, no stumbling. <br />To everyone’s surprise, <br />Straight away, one fine day, <br />Sudhamani walked swiftly! <br />She talked Malayalam slickly! <br /> <br />Not even her age was two. <br />She started singing, <br />Devotional songs too, <br />Apart from saying, <br />Krishna’s names all the time! <br /> <br />She began by age four <br />Composing divine songs <br />With devotional fervour <br />In front of Krishna picture! <br /> <br />By age five <br />Like Radha of Madhura <br />Like Meera of Mevaar <br />Like Aandaal of Tamizhagam <br />Sudhamani longed and flushed <br />To see Krishna in the flesh <br /> <br />The little Krishna snap <br />Which she had tucked in top <br />Was drenched by tears rivulet <br />And was dried by burning heart <br /> <br />While other children <br />Were engaged in childhood playoffs <br />Sudhamani would be found engrossed <br />Inwardly motionless, many a times. <br /> <br />What she was looking into <br />The backwaters’ tiny waves? <br />What she was searching <br />By her stare in endless skies? <br />What she was seeing within <br />By sitting still with closed eyes? <br />As a star of brood <br />She astounded village crowd! 110708<br /><br />Raman Savithiri<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/908-avataar-aanandamayi-02-surprising-childhood-110708/
