The heart gives birth to a man
By
P.R.Ramachander
(Based on a story
in Malai Malar, Tamil news paper)
It was dark night
in the suburbs of chennai,
One empty taxi was
coming with great speed on the road,
A middle aged lady
frantically waved and stopped the taxi,
And said to the taxi driver “Brother I need to go to hospital”
The taxi driver
vigorously shook his head
to say no,
And said, “I am hungry
,I have to h go home , take food and sleep,”
The lady fell at his
feet on the bare dry earth and pleaded,
“My daughter has
labour pain, Please do not say
no.”
The Taxi driver
thought a while and said , “Would
you give me ,
Five hundred
rupees?” and the lady said , “anything you ask, even thousand.”
The lady and her daughter
got in to the taxi and started
moving fast,
And the daughter
was shrieking in severe God given pain.
Unfortunately they
had to cross a railway level crossing.
And the taxi was
forcibly made to wait ten minutes there,
And in the pitch darkness, the shriek of the pain of the daughter,
Made the
eyes of the taxi driver
full with tears.
They reached the hospital, girl was rushed
in side ,
And after some time
her shriek subsided and they heard an infant cry,
And the doctor came and told the lady , she had a
grand son,
And with beaming face
filled with joy , the lady gave the driver five hundred.
He said “no” and
refused the money and told
,
“Now only I realize
the pain my mother underwent ,
To give birth to me” and he immediately phoned.
And asked “Is it
the old age home “ and they said yes.
“Sorry madam to call you this late , A few days back ,
I admitted a lady
in your home saying she is an
orphan,
She is not an orphan
but my own mother .
I would come tomorrow morning to her bring her back.”
Only when one really is pregnant with the real truth ,
The truth would
shock him to the core ,
And he would be
shrieking in pain to deliver,
And his heart
would give birth to a man.
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