Art by Oskar Kokoschka

Title if the Painting : Martha Hirsch (1909)

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)

June 2016.

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