Jun 12, 2016
In war-torn days they met
when they did not know
what to do with life
which brought such love they could neither take nor hide
Her youth going to seed,
eyes bulging with sleeplessness,
and her hands...
instead of let them hang by her side
she gathered them and held close.
"One day i will come," said he,
"with heaps of currency notes
and a dream-boat; wait for me."
And she said okay.
Years went by and one day she died.
They put her in the coffin,
her hands held close,
one upon the other
as on the day she mutely said,
"Okay, I shall wait."
Sushama Karnik (c)
Art by Oskar Kokoschka
Title if the Painting : Martha Hirsch (1909)
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