<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480765" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Forgive and Forget</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When it was ten minutes to lunch bell, <br>my Chemistry lecturer completed teaching.<br>I swivelled to my right and looked out.<br>I was surprised and embarrassed<br>to see my mother and her sister<br>standing beside the walkway.<br>I went out with his nod and asked my mom: <br>' Why did you come here? '.<br>' Just to see your college', said<br>my mother in amazement.I led them out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Walking some ten kilometres in the hot Sun, <br>from her Sun-baked birth place, <br>she came there.The lunch bell rang in my ears.<br>I got some cheap snacks and drinks for them<br>and sent them back to reach home before sunset.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I strolled back to hostel mess, with my friend.<br>I couldn't eat non-veggie food.<br>I told my friend about the sudden arrival<br>and departure of my illiterate mother, <br>clad in a cotton sari with sparse gold chains.<br>' You are not a man at all.If you had told me, <br>I would have brought them here for lunch', he said.<br>He had carried me through tense situations.<br>Yet he didn't speak to me for two more days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I went home in the vacation and pleaded with<br>my mother to forgive me for sending them back<br>in hunger without taking rest for awhile.<br>'It's nothing.I felt sorry for not bringing you cash', <br>she said and continued clearing the weeds in our fields.<br>My mother's great heart forgot it and it felt no need<br>to forgive her son.But my sleepless mind<br>reminisces often that day in my college<br>and feels remorseful.<br>My mother has left this world but my heart.<br>Till I breathe last, her memories will give me<br>a healing touch to my tearful heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rajendran+Muthiah">Rajendran Muthiah</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480765" data-title="To Forgive and Forget de Rajendran Muthiah" data-description="When it was ten minutes to lunch bell, my Chemistry lecturer completed teaching. I swivelled to my right and looked out. I was surprised and embarrassed to see my mother and her sister standing beside the walkway. I went out with his nod and aske..."></div> </div> </div>

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