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It felt like I was late ,

Late for everything ;

Like life was that bully

Who would push me 

If I tried to brush on time.

So there I was, 

Late in getting ready;

And so my whole day 

Would be delayed and

You would be Someone else's.

I would be late to 

Eat my bowl of rice and

Hence, I would get but too less, 

For with you I was stuck 

With less and so with lovelessness.

Devastated I was , for I was too late,

The bully called life 

Had made me your unrequited lover.

But then, just like people help cope

Everyone around me did.

They tried to fill the empty space

In my bowl with half their rice;

And so the bully turned into 

A friend who helped me move on

And humanity was what helped me

Get through my hurt.

But , like you, there 

Was another woman in my life

Who was my unrequited lover.

She was the woman who would 

Always fill my bowl with more rice,

Rice here symbolizing her love, 

She wanted to spend all her time 

Only with me since I was little.

But, as I grew up and found friends 

In people outside ,

I started forgetting her 

I started ignoring her ;

And there were days when she 

Would wait for me till the very end

Till one day , I was too busy for her

When she decided to stop calling.

But life couldn't help her cope

Like it did for me 

For her love was beyond boundaries.

She was my mother

I was her womb.

After you couldn't be mine 

And my life was too stressed 

With all the work I had to do ,

She called me one more time 

And this was her last try.

That day I remembered the hurt 

You had given me,

The stress of work I never bore

When she used to feed me;

And so the prodigal son did return

Never to leave now

For he now realized 

The significance of more rice.

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Anushka Gupta