My Mother at Sixty-six -Kamla Das

Kamla Das has now passed away but she has left behind her a number of forceful poems coming from her personal experiences surrounding her life that was a rebellious one . She was originally named Madhavikutti , the name she used for her works in Malayalam , her mother tongue . For her works in English she used the name 'Kamla Das . In the last part of her life she had turned a Muslim and died as a Muslim .
Most of her poems spring out of her sexual experiences and though they are more strong poems than this , CBSE would have found them unsuitable for school students and chosen this one .
This poems contains the sentiment of pathos emanating from the pangs of separation and the problems of ageing .
The poet (poetess) is going away from her mother , far as she is going by an aeroplane . On her to the airport , she sees at her mother . The mother is dozing off and her open mouth looks like that of a dead person . She thinks that her mother is now old enough to die and this makes her frightened . She looks now out of her car and sees the energetic children running out of their house and the trees also seem to be running .
At the airport , she hides her fears and smiles and says 'See you ......' . But, at heart she feels the same pain of separation from her mother that a child feels .