May Papa Help Mama To Heal Poem by Porselvi Roy

Enough of deeming her great,
and leaving our lonesome mother
in distress, her soul, heart and body
stifling in a never-ending coal furnace

May Papa help Mama to heal

Enough of ransacking her fate
and looting the wholesome bounty
day in and day out without remorse
as the warming and melting harness

May Papa help Mama to heal

Enough of binding her
with the cossetting strands of treason
that put her on a stringent leash
as she struggles to breathe

May Papa help Mama to heal

On Father's Day 2021