Opportunity To Repay

I wouldn't miss a single opportunity to repay 

Your unkind and unloving conduct to me.

I took the first instance of putting myself

in your shoes

I gathered all the silence of the space and void 

in me to sail through this dark sea

I took great efforts to keep you secular

of my presence after knowing you

I knew the light within and the fight inside you

I was aware, I am a journey waiting to be more.

You cursed me, suffocated my every wish

All I learned and praised in you

Is your poetry, drawing, and sensitivity.

I learnt how to be fair, how it could be difficult to accept someone’s child as your own.

I questioned myself, Can I be different from you?

If I were to mother some troubled or angelic soul.

I promised myself what not to be!

Since then I was rewarded once with the capacity and opportunity

to feed an orphan with my own breasts

The gesture a part of me, hassle-free.