Motherhood

-K. Soma Sekar

Kamala was a bit negligent thinking that the child was playing outside! Now the child, Kakkan was missing!

Sudhakar had gone searching for the boy but didn’t return so far! Kamala felt as if she was standing on embers! At about 2 O’clock she heard Sudhakar’s bike sound.

She went out running but there was no child! In exasperation, she asked, ‘Where is the child?’

‘I had seen all places. School, playground, but he is not anywhere!’

‘Shall we make a complaint to police?’

‘Don’t hurry! I’ll go once again.’ And Sudhakar went away.

‘If you find the child, phone me immediately! Till then I’ll not take even a drop of water!’

It was 7 O'clock in the evening. Again the bike sound came!

With a bound, she leaped to the entrance. She saw the child on the pillion seat. She rushed and took him in her arms.

‘Where had you gone?’

“Daddy left me at his friend’s house this morning. Now he came to get me!’

After listening to this, Kamala burst out like a volcano!

‘What madness is this? You kept a mother so harassed! Is it justified?’

‘If I were late from a grocer’s shop by ten minutes, my would would get agonized! By sending them to Old Age Home, the justice you’ve shown is the same I’ve shown to you!!!’