Ma doesn’t give me extra roti

·

Sunayna Pal


after I scold

the lady who fought with the world

to keep me alive and alive.

        I need to lose weight.

        You only want to see me fat.

        Why do you bathe this in ghee?

After I find faults

which I never did the

thirty years she fed me

        This is burnt.

        You should use an iron tawa.

        This isn’t even a perfect circle.

After I moved

8000 miles away

to start my family    

        I miss you.

        I am really tired.

Even after I cry.