Right To Life Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Right to Life

Our difference is very simple
You have your way, firm and clear
Your place is yours and others are intruders
Unless invited; permitted.

Not I.

Example:

I was making my sandwich
My breakfast
Yes sandwich for breakfast
Special made
Curd and jam on thin bread
Rolled, wrap

Few drops of the sweet content fell in the sink
The newly cleaned shiny aluminum turned red
In those spots
I looked, watched, stared. I imagined, minutes.

Cockroaches coming, from inside the drainage
From their hiding places, cautiously and carefully
“Clear” they would say to one another “much to eat”
The smaller playfully among the larger ones.
A circle of cockroaches around the jelly drops,
A feast.

My uninvited guests, secretly and in my absence
Celebrate their ‘Right to Life’.

You
Run the water immediately, the rag…clean “It is my life”
I
They too have a right to life, “Right to life or liveliness? ”

I stand and wonder…
Lucky you…