Special moments, Regular mom

I will fall, I will cry, I will get up again and I won’t be shy I may feel sad, that I did not listen to you I do feel bad for wherever I disagreed to and wherever I suffered But I feel happy I made those mistakes, I feel happy I broke, and I learnt my lessons ma. I would have never realized the power of God I would have never realized the spiritual way to you my Lord It gives me happiness, It gives me peace When I feel the acceptance of my actions in me I want to take the responsibility and accept my past You show me way to hold on to present and head towards my future fast Hold me and hold my thoughts my God Take away my negatives and give me your positives my Lord Give me the path to you, let me tread towards you Give me the strength and patience to live with the negatives and face them to reach you.

I once knew a girl as happy and chirpy as can be So full of life so full of bliss A social animal jumping around Heart throb of many boys around She learnt to plan early in life And believed her planning will always be live She was immature and she was naïve She didn’t understand God’s ways She had to live in a harsh world Where men rule and women suffer Where, sometimes though they are allowed to work Back home they are meant to serve She had been brought up like her brother Given all the rights and she didn’t have to bother She had no time to be in kitchen Because she had to study for her mission She excelled and gained the respect And then she married a man whom she selects Life was good until she realized She was a woman and had no right to reach the skies No right to be wiser than the man No right to be successful than the man No right to enjoy a space for herself No right to earn more than her man Here she is today fighting with herself Swearing on raising her doll in a diffe...

It was a beautiful summer day of June. My heart was constantly pounding, as it was another checkup day for me. I was approaching my delivery date. I had been through a hard pregnancy, being the first pregnancy. But I guess, first pregnancies are mostly hard, especially considering the sudden hormonal and body changes. I don’t feel that I was happy during my pregnancy. The gestational diabetes had set in during my 5 th month, which had led to missing on most of the fun stuff I could eat. I was though upbeat that day, about getting the baby out and meeting it for the first time, and I was excited about that. I wasn’t although prepared for the birth process. In India, there is very less education, if any, given about the birthing process. The bits and pieces that doctors told, was also something which I couldn’t visualize or relate to. So the whole mystery of birthing process was terrifying to me. I had gone for a lot of checkups and ultrasounds, considering my diabetes, falling...