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A baby's nostalgia

How rich and great the time when mother's love transformed
Me from a mere word 'baby' in her mind into a piece of flesh
That breathed of the eternal childly in her lap.
Unable to communicate in my pre-birth language
Despite my knowledge of wise words, I concentrated on
This 'Now' and dumbly let mother's words fill my infant's
Ears until the universal mother tongue 'mum, maa, muum'-
Meaning'I'm the baby you used to be', ripened in my ears.
My first earthly word which was already old when she
Was young, aroused in her a sublime state of nostalgia
And gave her a life time in an instant, 'now and here'.
A mortal moment that aught to have lasted for ever,
Had come and gone before I knew and I strive
To keep it alive in me as a session of the infinite.

poem by Yoonoos Peerbocus
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