Manthena Damodara Chary writes

MY SPLENDID STORY

Since my birth I have a splendid story

I am never a buyer of counterfeit glory

I treat my mother as Goddess of poetry

Offering her all peerless pearls of poetry

You burn me alive with all assumptions

You bury my ashes with presumptions

My serious illness is a pathetic story

Preventing me from seeking any glory

I never befriend a venomous snake

Knowing that my life will be at stake

I can never dwell well with a scorpion

Stinging me with tail to keep me in pain

You crucify me as a Christ with malice

You always hate me out of cowardice

A fair friend speaks all words of solace

To comfort a man in the bed with grace

All fair friends have their finally fair say

They always assure us of their sure stay

Tears Are Yet to Come --  Chikako Okada