Then there was no Shame *Dr. K L Chowdhury | |
When you could do it on your own no longer you did not mind me helping you with your bath, dear mother. All shame evaporated in no time, as if it never were there, like the dew on a morning in summer. There was no inhibition whatever, neither with you nor with me as I slowly undressed you and poured jugfulls of warm water, lathering your shriveled skin and your silken hair, rubbing your shrunken frame and rib cage, lean limbs and wasted muscles that have left hollows everywhere - the back and buttocks, the shoulders and scapulae - your breasts like punctured balloons, your puckered bottom hanging like a loose pouch, and your fast receding lower belly that still hides your shame even as you sat naked in front of me on the bathing chair. What notion of privacy held you back, that you refused to let me bathe you till you were at the end of the tether and even as it was so perilous, my tremulous frail mother? Was there anything hidden from me who had seen you for full nine months from inside your belly and from outside all my life ever since you delivered me, holding my feet between your warm thighs when I would get them wet and cold playing in the snow, warming my blue hands on your breasts, overflowing with the milk of your love? You knew my nakedness ever since I took birth, but I knew yours even before I was born. Time has taken a full circle, dear mother, we are being natural again. | |
*Dr. K L Chowdhury retired as a Professor of Medicine, Medical College, Srinagar. Presently he is the Director of a charitable institution, Shriya Bhatt Mission Hospital and Research Center, Durga Nagar, Jammu. He is a physician and neurologist, a medical researcher, poet, social activist. He writes on diverse subjects medical, literary, social and political and has numerous research papers to his credit, his pioneering work being “The Health Trauma in a Displaced Population” which was presented at national and international conferences. He was declared Shehjar's '
Kashmiri Person of the year
' for 2007. | |
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True. Relation between a Mother and a Son presented in a beautiful way.
Added By Chander M. Bhat
i knew u r Dr by profession but after i read ur poem it vibrated my emotions n i realized u are doctor of reations, emotions n sevabhav as well. this poem has touched the cord of my heart n i visualised the eternal mother n son relation.
Added By subhash razdan
Though belated yet I feel satisfied to read the poetry of k l chowdhury, most respected personality of the k p community.He has not thrown the words in air but his poems are genuinely man centric. One can not be a great poet due tO his imaginative writings only but a poet can not escape the atmosphere where he lives in.For writing the poetry through living and experiencing k l chowdhury attracts my accolades.
Added By adarsh ajit
I wish I could translate the poem in Kashmiri .... my vocabulary fails me ...
Added By MK Raina
Though belated yet I feel satisfied to read the poetry of k l chowdhury, most respected personality of the k p community.He has not thrown the words in air but his poems are genuinely man centric. One can not be a great poet due tO his imaginative writings only but a poet can not escape the atmosphere where he lives in.For writing the poetry through living and experiencing k l chowdhury attracts my accolades.
Added By adarsh ajit
There can be no appropriate words to comment on this poem. Dr.Chowdhry is emotional in his writings because he is a truthful man. He never hesitates to speak truth in whatever fora it may be.He loves his mother and want others to do the same.He doesn't love his mother only but his motherland too.He desires to see all the mothers along with their children in the homeland loving each other.
Added By Vijay Kashkari
What a perfect picturisation of the loving bond between a mother and her child. The emotions,sentiments and pure sublime love flows effortlessly through the simple words spoken from the heart,soul and mind of the poet. Life does take a full circle and when and how the reversal of roles take place one is left bemused always. Loved your poem doc.
Added By Sunita Bakshi
These words, emotions, feelings , related to a mother are comment less, priceless.Only few persons who know the mother's importance, in each moment of the life, from core of the heart, can put these feelings in words..Appreciable .... Regards
Added By Anu dhar