Unloved Child
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."