Caged bird

How could I forget your face;
It is engraved in the deepest parts of my sorrow.
The pain you caused me physically doesn't even touch the surface of the hurt I feel emotionally.
Do you feel like a man now that you've seen tears slowly overflow in my eyes?
Is it me or were you smiling in my despair?
Poke at me in this cage of depression I find myself in.
That's how you show your manhood, isn't it?

How could I forget the look at your;
It once lived in the greenest parts of my heart,
But now it rests its head on my sadness.
How could you be blind to what I say to you?
Is it because of the back you used to give me whenever I begged for you to believe me?
You have been my stronghold, mother.
But now you lie in the distance of my memories of you.

Will you remember the smile that used to shine on my face when I saw you father?
Will you remember the tears of joy I used to cry whenever you told me you love me mother?
Will you remember the face that looked up to you as a role model mother?
All you will remember is this note from me to you,
And me spreading my wings and flying away and no longer a caged bird.
I'm sorry we won't be able to reconcile again.

Reviews

[Shabeeh Haider]

This is sad.......touches the strings of heart. I think it needs a lot of courage to pen down such a poem. Sad and very insightful.

[Zee Langa]

Yeah.. You know as a poet, when you put yourself in certain situations, you can be able to write such, and that is what I did here.