--- title: "Don't Kill Me Mamma!" date: 2008-07-17T13:36:08Z modified: 2008-07-17T13:36:08Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/dont-kill-me-mamma/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 247 categories: - Life Poems author: Raji Krishnan timestamp: 2008-07-17T13:36:08Z tags: - Life Poems --- I lie there in my wee home surrounded by the fluid of care and love hoping and yearning to [see her face](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/i-see-the-face.md) to see the world to see my family someday… oh, how I wish I was born! I hear her- reciting the verses singing a lullaby her fond coochy coos her chiming bangles and rhyming anklets oh, how I wish I was born! I can [feel](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/oh-what-a-feeling.md) her the warmth of her hand all over me Her gaze – down on me watching me grow The [air](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/love-is-in-the-air.md) of love that surrounds me Oh, how I wish I was born! I hear voices That fill me with qualm their talks turn to whispers I hear her sobs I feel her tears on the walls of my little home I long to be there and listen to all they say Oh how I wish I was born! I hear her as she says She will miss me As I realize the truth my eyes fill with tears will you make me bleed mamma? Will you let me die? I will miss you too.. She hears me not I lie there silently [Holding on](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/holding-on.md) to dear life Oh, how I wish I was not formed!