An Earthly Knot

An Earthly Knot

P K Routray

A face lost in thought

to a grandma a child has brought,

drawing an art or composing a poetry par excellence

to speak of a grandma’s satisfaction of quittance.

Or is the grandma cursing the time witch has robbed her

of infancy, childhood, youth and strength forever?

She may be smiling at her past memory coming to replay

or at being sure, her blood on the earth will continue to stay,

or at somebody’s arrival to replace her to take her son’s care

or at having got a companion, her time to pleasantly share.

Is it, the grandchild resting in peace and bliss

is imparting peace and bliss at her heart’s abyss?

Perhaps it may be a blank face with mind empty of thought

awed at His illusory power of trapping her in such an earthly knot.