Question

why did kamala das feel helpless​

Answer 1

Because her mother is sixty -six years old her face looks like pale, she thinking about her mother she is not live a long and also may be next time doesn't meet her mother again.

Answer 2

Answer: In the poem, my mother at sixty- six is written by the poet Kamala Das. She is sad because her mother is sixty six years old and is drifting towards the path of the death.

Her mother was looking pale and going to weak day by day. She realizes that after that she will never be able to see her mother.