Unloved Child

Cold night, Ammi and Zara are on the graveyard of stars. 

Zara asks, "Ammi, which one is Abbu's star?"

Everything goes motionless,

buried words reopen the wound of the nasty wink. 

She looks into the light of her 

moist eyes and says, "He is in the shade and 

he will never be in someone's sight."

Zara never understood Ammi's heavy words,

and quietly gazed with her eyes full of uncertainty.

‌Just like some once upon a day, 

Zara finds the suffering of her mother. 

Quietly sobbing inside and numb outside, 

understood the filth of man's unknown 

hands on unblemished skin. 

Zara's first man to love 

and trust was the first man 

for Ammi to hate and distrust. 

Ache and scream of that night 

and blemish on her skin just 

couldn't make through the blindside. 

Thinking about her pain shatters 

Zara's sight for the world of bright light. 

Ammi tells Zara, "She was the best thing, 

she got out of that night 

and her only reason she made through life."