Nifla Hussain Ali
Where are you, oh my fairy godmother!
You searched this corner and the other.
Swabbing the stains of your own gore
When his anger shoved you and more.
Do you exist or did you become extinct?
You moaned in silence but distinct.
He might hear me cry – you feared
Kick, slap and punch, made you teared.
Where did you hide when I howled in rain?
You whispered with a great pain.
When his belt kissed your butts high
And when his cigars died on your thigh.
Don’t you hear my agonised cry?
Oh fairy godmother why oh why?
You murmured each day and nightfall
When he threw you like an old rag doll.
Do you live only in a fairy tale
Come and save me from this selfish male
You begged in every broken hour
When he used you to test his power.
Oh my dear child, don’t you see me here?
Chained and charmed by your own fear
Sleeping am I inside your rib cage
Under the name dormant courage.
