beautiful, durga.
that moment when there was no news of di to her standing at the gate... what must those moments have been like for him... and for her to see him in that state, shaken up as she was anyway. tough life these two siblings have faced, tied thery are to each other by a womb... a sense of umbilical cord in each other... maa is in her for him and perhaps in him for her, for when they share they know, only they knew her as maa... a tie that they so need in this life to live. the understanding of this relationship always amazed and touched. perhaps that's why the rakhee was always important and the brother honoured it from within, without fuss.
your poem goes to the heart of it. if he lost her today, he'd lose faith all over again... and himself.
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