Tangled in a web of negative emotions
that crops up in her, she looks arid
with pain distilled from silence
as she signs away her maternal rights
under the contract
to relinquish the baby born out of her womb.
Maybe for pecuniary purposes,
still the cause of helping a frustrated couple
to fulfill their dreams of parentage being core
surrogacy makes her service revered.
Rejected by neighbours and friends
risking her psychological health deleterious
it requires guts to brave acquisitions
against religious legitimacy,
against social acceptance,
besides strained relation between her own man.
All this inept to prevent
the natural maternal instincts in her
though the ovule does not belong to her.
Biological bond to the fetus she develops
yet unable to answer her own kids
why they are denied having a sibling.
About the Author
K Pankajam
Member Since: 29 Aug, 2015
I am a poet, novelist and reviewer settled at Chennai and is on a short visit to Toronto, Canada. Retired from BHEL recently as Dy Manager/Finance. Got 7 published works in English and 1 in Malayalam. Have published poems in many online j...
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