AN OCEAN APART.....



I just snuggled into your womb,
Why did you let them turn it to my tomb,
Even before I breathed in the fresh air?
Why did you let them lay your womb empty and bare?


I was a part of you,
Were not you glad to create something new?
I shared your breath and blood
Still taking shape like a delicate bud.


I did not even take a proper shape,
Two little baby eyes on a shapeless head gaped,
A pink little fleshy mass,
Who you all rejected and bypassed.


There I lay in a bloody wrap,
Unclaimed, unwanted, like dirty crap,
On a cold floor, with many like me there strewn,
Away from your warm womb's cocoon.


Could not you have fought against
Their wishes and stand in my defence,
To bring me out into this world,
Let me lie against your bosom curled.


Why did not you nurture
Me, agree to bear such torture,
Of throwing away a part of you
Now you sit in tears and about your decision rue!


How I wish you let me blossom 
Into a flower beautiful and awesome!
Instead you cut me off, left forgotten,
Threw me away like something rotten.


You did not let me be a part
Of you and quietly let me depart,
Screams my under developed heart 
In pain, all pierced by the cruel societal darts,
Frustrated, because to you I cannot chart
Another way; From you now I am,my mother sweetheart,
Very far, unreachable and unswimmable-'an ocean apart'.

©Madhumita