🌺Vai’s Mom 🌺

I'd watch your nimble fingers move
The crisp creases of your saree they'd trace
Hid from the world within the pleats
It's where I'd find my true solace
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You'd open your eyes real wide
As you carefully lined them with black kohl
Perhaps that's what made you see the good in all
Infusing kindness deep in your soul
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It's years later now, and I do the same
With black kohl, my day I start
Eagerly try to follow your ways
Hoping to inherit if only, a tiny piece of your heart
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I have your smile, they often say
I only nod, and pray that it's true
You see the best part of me, Amma
Is that I'm a part of you
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Happy 60th🌺
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By Vaidehi Murthy