Mum never told a lie – A poem by Abdul Quader

by Abdul Quader | December 21, 2011 3:55 am

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

Source URL: https://priyoaustralia.com.au/literature/poems/2011/mum-never-told-a-lie-a-poem-by-abdul-quader/

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