A Daughter's Prayer: A Quest for Love and Peace

The LIFE enriches
and suckles the famished
with zeal and ambition
but I succumb to
a thought that
faults of my family
are my failures as
the 'daughter'.
I pray to thee
with my last breath
to hold and to cherish
the ones that I loved
and to bring into
their lives - the light
I sought throughout life
- mine and through yours
The life replete with love
a dream pervading beneath my eyes
but music that i hear
will and must bring
the calm and
the essence of a new shared dream
flying on the whispers

Comments

A New Beginning said…
Why is it that the daughter has to hold the burden of expectations . Always...
3 December 2008 at 08:41
Subuhi said…
A daughter (/-in-law)will always be a daughter... she not only learns to be what is expected of her to be... but she also forgoes what is not.

not because she's weak... au contraire because she's strong and will always be stronger than most in the family... for it's not the work of a faint hearted to give up on her cherished treasures for a higher satiety factor- MENTAL PEACE
5 December 2008 at 14:03
Sandy said…
Mega hugs! Perhaps, that is what remains my eternal struggle...of being a daughter, wife, daughter-in-law, aunt, sister, mother...and in that chaos, forgetting who I am in my soul and being just a woman first. Yet, without these shades, a painting would remain un-interesting. Importantly though, without the person's own essence, the painting would be meaningless.
Lovely Subu! :)
15 October 2013 at 08:22
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