NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 1

Prompt: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write – without consulting the book – a poem that recounts the plot, or some portion of the plot, of a novel that you remember having liked but that you haven’t read in a long time.

The Meeting

Two souls come together on an evening drenched with love.
Above the rims of the ceramic cups filled with hot chai, a pair of wise eyes assess the younger, restless ones.

“What took you so long?”
“ Work, laundry, arguments, and kids,” says the busy body.
“Glad you finally made it,” whispers the mature one.

The two sip quietly.
The hum of one’s heart radiating in the other.

The pang of not being able to meet tumors in one.
The other reminisces how the hope of meeting throbbed in her soul.
Their hearts are achingly full.

Lost decades are made up in minutes,
For time, they have each realized differently, moves differently for them.

The daughter now understands the need for making time and the mother has gone beyond the realm of time.

‘Mamaji’ by Elisheba Haqq is the story of a girl’s longing for the love of her deceased mother is palpable on each page of the book much like what I feel having missed the precious moments I could have spent with her.