Alive In The Heart Poem by Asit Kumar Sanyal

Once a daughter said her father,
'What you have done for me,
How much you spend to bring me up
For my bread, butter and ghee?

You tell me, I will pay you
The entire cost of bringing up.
Father laughed, and said...,
I can't calculate, it is very tough.

Material is free, pay the value of love
But I don't know it's cost per hour
Calculate it for twenty five years
And pay when you will be a mother.

Now she is having a teen age baby
But... could not pay the cost
Father has forgiven his daughter
Question is alive in the heart.