WITHOUT YOU

One whole year passed by,

Three hundred and sixty five days 

To be precise, of being without you,

Without seeing that smile of yours;

My name that sounded so sweet before,

Does not sound the same anymore,

I miss you and everything about you,

The love, the care,

Your warm hugs and embrace;

My favourite dishes that you lovingly cooked,

Do not taste the same anymore,

Are  my favourites no more;

I still look around for you 

In the small little things I received from you,

In the smiles and faces of your grandchildren,

Trying to touch you,

Feel you in the many memories that you left behind

And in the blood that flows within me,

See a part of you in my skin, my hair,

My eyes, for I am a part of you;

You thrive in my heart,

I can feel you forever around me, 

A whole year of you not being there,

But still being there within me,

My heart aches and pains,

The little girl in me is lost without you,

The tears still flow,

My heart still jumps when the phone rings

Thinking that it is you at the other end;

Yes I am yet to come to terms..!

Yet to learn to live without you Maa!!

©®Madhumita

#Maa #Mother