Picked up used towels,
Underwear off the floor.
Cooked meals.
Heaved and panted.
Retched.
Birthed babies.

Yet you’re
Never satisfied.
Nitpicking.
Mood shifting.
Fire breathing.
Dragon in my life.

So I shall arise
And return
To my mother’s house.
Unrepentant.
Unrepenting of my sins
Of commission and omission. 

Ermelinda Makkimane is from Goa and loves thinking poetry. Sometimes she writes down those words. On rare occasions, she pens a story. She currently works from her village in Divar, Goa.