My Only Regret!

Eyes closed, heart beating slowly,

My skin too transparent

To face the outer world,

So, I was kept hidden into

Something, all curled.

It felt I was in a liquid cube,

Carelessly kicking around and floating

Getting my energy from an umbilical tube.

I could feel the warmth

And the velvet cushion around me,

Staying in this wet wonderful world of

Care was my heart’s only plea.

As months passed by,

I grew stronger and had

Close attachments with my plasma bed.

The thought of world outside freaked me,

Then I could here, a soothing sweet voice

But no one could I see.

But a day came when

The cushion around me started

To drain out, it took me

With it to the new brighter world

And with me came a shout,

“It’s a boy”.

I was pulled away from my first abode,

Which had tube hanging out

As it was still trying to hold.

I was helpless and

All I could do was cry,

They cut the tube away

From my belly and I felt I would die.

but then wrapped in furry

White clothes I was taken to my ‘Mother’.

The touch she had was softer

And more tender then my liquid abode,

And her kiss on my forehead

Made all my helplessness erode.

She then hugged

And kissed me again,

And what it did was

It made me forget all my pain.

she said

she loved me,

Then I knew that she was the one

Who gave me the nine months

Of care and love,

That even trying being the

Best son in the universe,

I would never deserve.

I too fell in love with her,

But I could not say that to her

And I was so torn

I missed to propose my first love

The day I was born.

I missed to express my feelings

For her the same day she did to me

This being the only

Regret of my life and always will be.

I still regret this but I can only

Repent for my mistake by saying to her

‘I love you, Maa’, every day of my life

From the moment I learned to speak.