How could I be so cruel?

[rajnish manga]

How could I be so cruel?

Feelings of a mother as she left her daughter about 500 kilometers away for college for the first time:

With those teary eyes, you said mom take me back home

I felt like my body was getting separated from the soul


Am I really a mother? Do I have flesh and bone?

How could I be so cruel, how could I leave you alone?


My eyes are so moist, my heart is still racing

Is this my mistake to bring you what you are facing?


I wish I could touch you, and hug you so tight

Without you around, I’m just string less floating kite


I know I gave you birth, but you gave me new life

You have been my sunrise, you are my fife


Oh I wish to keep you, If I could, if I may
But my love, I can’t be so selfish, I won’t make you stay


Looking up the opportunities in rough competitive sky,

darling, with heavy heart I have to now let you fly


I will wait my darling, while you sail career’s boat

I foresee future and see you in that white coat


You will surely succeed, will chime the success bell

This will only happen sweetie, when you come out of my shell…

- Mom

[rajnish manga]

Mother's Outpourings

On the phone I hear you once cry
Hundred times, my love, I also die

Oh dear, What can I do, who do I please
How do I eradicate your forehead crease

Departing from there, leaving you all alone
I fear darling, I must have a heart of stone

Your pleading, damp, curly brown lashes
Arresting my breath, as my heart beat crashes

The pearls rolling down your rosy cheeks
melting me down like those rocky creeks

But no sweetie, now you be tough like a coconut
So nectarous inside, but still hard to cut

You’re so Precious, you are the best
This is the confidence you ought to invest

Listen to the rhythm of your heart
Whispering my daughter! 'this is a new start...'

Six years tunnel*, will bring enormous light
Blossom of success with each stride

I see you far, at the end of rainbow,
But colors in the middle, and poise glow!!

* time to be spent at academy

--Mom