Mum never told a lie – A poem by Abdul Quader
Mum never told a lie
Abdul Quader
Can mum tell a lie?
I believe whatever mum
Used to tell was true.
In my childhood days,
Mum told a fairy lived in the moon.
In my childhood days,
Mum told an old granny
Made up threads in the moon.
Mum’s hand on my
Forehead was like
A warm shawl,
When I had cold and fever.
Mum’s hand on my
Forehead was like
Cool breeze and rains
In the sweltering summer.
I still believe whatever
Mum told was true.
(based on a ghazal sung by Jagjit Singh)
Abdul Quader writes from Canberra
