Swinging his leg in a slow, sweeping arc <br />Children running behing him imitating his walk <br />Polio stricken right leg with paper skin on the bones <br />Some of them sniggering at him and pelting stones <br /> <br />His lower face frozen with a congenital paralysis <br />Unable to smile, a grim face he always flashes <br />When he is happy you can see it only in the glint of the eye <br />When he is sad you can just hear him slowly sigh <br /> <br />Married to a woman who always sneers at him <br />Makes his life hell, his sorrow never dims <br />With her oscillating hips, tempting countless men to sins <br />One fine day, she runs away in one of her whims <br /> <br />Silently he endures the worlds million lashes <br />He had found his joy, his antidote for the gashes <br />His little one, the apple of his eye, the only gift she gave him <br />The only reason he lives, his happiness filled to the brim <br /> <br />**** Inspired by a charactar in the book -The Kite Runner***<br /><br />Renu Rakheja a.k.a Tranquil Ocean<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/j-1-general-the-one-legged-man/
