Sudha’s Grandma sent word
To Dhamayanthi to send
Little Sudha to attend
Chores at her end.
Granny’s home was
Six kilometers away.
Sudha would go by
Boat, feeding her eye
With blissful blue sky.
Her mind would dance
With waves’ merry glance.
She would enter a trance
Singing devotional songs
One fine day when
Sudha asked for boat fare
Dhamayanthi showed no care.
But asked ‘Who you are?
A college student to ask for
Boat fare! …walk hereafter.’
Sudha was not upset!
She thought mother might be right.
She never felt bore,
While walking by shore,
Singing from heart core
To attend Granny’s chore.
As she walks all alone
Noticed by no one,
She would call out,
‘Krishna! Abandon me not!
Come running to lift
Me from this dirt
Of pleasures and transgressions.’
She would writhe as fish
Out of water and wish
To join Krishna as inundation
River gushing towards ocean!
Unable to bear the separation
From her beloved shepherd-
Krishna, she would fall flat
On shore abiding waves’ beat!
Mother Ocean would sprinkle,
By her wave hands wrinkle,
Salty water on Sudha’s face,
To bring her to normal pace!
Thus Sudha would reach,
Granny’s home through beach,
After having a divine drench,
To do backbreaking tasks. 281008
Raman Savithiri
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