Grief Of A Motherly woman

Hi,
Today I am going to tell you one of my important and sad experiences with a very simple and small piece of true story. The story goes as :
One day during my usual ward visit in hospital,I saw an elderly woman with heart failure,which resulted form aortic regurgitation.She came from a family of low socioeconomic condition and she was illiterate.While I was examining and questioning her,she almost cried and said in reply to my question that she was suffering from breathlessness for almost last tow years on normal day to day activity and chest pain! She told this to her family members like her sons &husband,but,none of them showed slightest interest regarding her poor disabling condition.None of them agreed to take her to see a doctor! At last, eventually when she became moribund,then,only one of her sons &her elder sister brought her to admit her to hospital! Her only family attendant in hospital was her elder sister and no other persons came to see her in hospital!
I do not know to what extent I was able to represent the gravity of the condition in words;but it seemed one of the saddest incidents that I faced ever!
I felt deeply.I felt a deep rooted grief and a typical sense of insecurity while I was trying to put myself in her position! At once, the face of my mother came to glow,being superimposed on the woman's face in front of my eyes and ,as if, I was her wretched,fool son,who can not realise the greatest ever Sin,the mankind has ever witnessed,he has committed!...the woman was so much 'Motherly' in appearance,the replica of eternal 'Mother-hood',who devoted and spent her whole life solely to maintain her family,brought up her children and look after her family members and nothing else!BUT,what was her REWARD insted? It was nothing but IGNORANCE and IGNORANCE and IGNORANCE of her nearest,dearest and her very own persons!She loved,but,was she loved?
What had she wanted from life?Was it too much to long for a litte Love and sympathy,perhaps, apart from minimum food and clothings?BUT,it is the irony that she was deprived of the possible barest minimum need of Life-game!...
The story of the woman described the naked truth of poor condition,which is more than sufficient to bring tears in eyes and grow child-like cry in the deepest corner of one's heart,of women like her in our country and the world.She,her Cry,her Tears,her Grief is the lively representitive of 'Universal Deprived Mother-hood'! Can the gorgeous exhibition of a single ''MOTHERS' DAY'' and tall talks bring end to such shameful insult to Humanity and glorious mother-hood,until or unless all of the 'Children' can sufficiently feel the Pain!
I really cried in me after this incidence and I am eagerly waiting to know the response of the reader after reading this.
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Bilwatosh Mukhopadhyay
'Pakshaput' ;Burdwan-713101

What Have I Seen ?

It is,indeed very tough to say
where to go and where is the way?
Am I wrong or,am I right?-
Probably they bother very slight.
I wonder and wonder and I think,
what have I seen,the ocean or sink?
Have I seen the deepest grief,
The hidden cry of the gray-green leaf ?
Have I seen the turns of alley ,
The alleys of life and darkest valley?
Have I seen the fight to win,
To win the lost-game just in vain;
There is their the thirst for life ,
Taking the Death just as wife!
There are few who won the game,
won but never they showed own name,
Just they got the slightest taste
Of life,for which they'd gasped in nest!
They are those,who got them changed-
But, I never could see what changed!
Have I seen the pain of Night,
Who brings for me delight of light?
I have seen just nothing on earth,
Just I can't deny the time's dearth.
Life is too small to see any thing,
Too small to see grow the cute Duckling!

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Bilwatosh Mukhopadhyay
'Pakshaput' ;
Burdwan-713101
Date- 9.7.2010
Time-12:30am