You wake up early in the morning

& then go to take a bath

I'm lying in a corner

waiting for you to cross my path.

 

Then you come out,

wear clothes & take your meal

I made you & you had to take my name

I always thought it was a deal.

 

Now you're getting ready to go

I think my name you'll say,

but you shout & scream in anger

& without looking at me you walk away.

 

You've become so busy , my son!

that you've forgotten the one who created you.

you are caught up in a thousand cobwebs

& I feel I'm nothing for you.

 

While coming back to your home

you look tired & ill.

now I hope you'll think about me

but you're not, & I'm waiting still.

 

You're thinking about your work,

about yourself & your family,

about your country & the world

but there's not one thought about me.

 

But I don't mind my dear

co'z I'm your defender.

I'll protect you from the shadows

& help to you I'll always render.

 

Then you come home & watch TV,

have dinner & talk to your family.

you speak to your wife, children, walls & chairs,

but not to me.

 

When I look at you from above

I feel a little unhappy

co'z I'm the one who gave you birth

then how could you forget me?

 

At last you go to bed

with a strange feeling buried very deep.

you close your eyes & think about the day

& then you go to sleep .

 

Child, you've lost yourself in the mad rush

I know you are suffering, you're not free.

but I promise that I'll be waiting for you

co'z at the end you have to come to me.

~Nidhi~

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