Swinging his leg in a slow, sweeping arc
Children running behing him imitating his walk
Polio stricken right leg with paper skin on the bones
Some of them sniggering at him and pelting stones
His lower face frozen with a congenital paralysis
Unable to smile, a grim face he always flashes
When he is happy you can see it only in the glint of the eye
When he is sad you can just hear him slowly sigh
Married to a woman who always sneers at him
Makes his life hell, his sorrow never dims
With her oscillating hips, tempting countless men to sins
One fine day, she runs away in one of her whims
Silently he endures the worlds million lashes
He had found his joy, his antidote for the gashes
His little one, the apple of his eye, the only gift she gave him
The only reason he lives, his happiness filled to the brim
**** Inspired by a charactar in the book -The Kite Runner***
Renu Rakheja a.k.a Tranquil Ocean
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/j-1-general-the-one-legged-man/
