A Mother's Pain

A Mother's Pain
P K Routray

It is told that Del is the unit of measurement of pain,

Forty five Del of pain a man in sense can sustain..

If twenty five bones of a man are broken together, It gives twenty Del of pain,

While delivering us mother has borne fifty-seven Del of pain without any complain

She has to carry us for ten months, tolerating all our physical expressions of anger and mirth,.

This is the history of physical pains inflicted on a mother before we saw the light on the earth.

Further there are pains she has to take in nurturing us up to this stage,

We go on giving her physical pain Irrespective of our height, weight and age.

Besides the above for us she has to bear many agonies in her emotional pain,

Some are for sheer sake of love for us and some for our ignorance and some are because we are inhuman and insane.

For measuring her pain for us I shall appeal the human genius,

To measure the above unmeasured pains and express along with hours say in Del-hours she has been enduring since ages.

Then only a man can judge and take mercy on her mother,

With each pain in his life he can feel her pain and his gratitude for her may mercifully increase further and farther.,