SWAN SONG
C. Vedavathi
(Translated from Original Telugu By Smt Leela Lakshminarayan)
Leaving the city of your residence,
Is like forsaking your mother.
When you vacate your house of many years,
It is like treating so many threads of relationship,
Pensioned off from your office,
Where you toiled for so many years.
Makes life meaningless.
When children flyaway
Like birds leaving the nest,
you are filled with emptiness.
Such distress when life’s pattern is broken,
Then how much more agony
When we break this tie with mother earth!