Sudipta Mishra, Bhubaneswar, 17 December 2022
Dear father,
Let me celebrate my success with thou.
Oh, you! my lovable father, listen to my tale of battle.
I would like to thank you for your steady assistance.
You know, it became a harbinger of my presence.
Do you know Daddy?
Due to thy eternal absence from my essence,
I have gathered more strength?
Oh, hardly you can imagine my wild passion!
It’s so glorious to fly above the sky;
It’s wondrous to accept loneliness.
It’s because of years of affliction, father,
Now I can value my worth in a crowd.
Do you know how helpless I was without your sight?
But let me thank you, father, for waking me through long nights.
For years of trauma and years of struggles for my rights.
But let me tell you, father,
Like an angel
You provoked me to challenge the orthodox world.
And now I extend my letter of appreciation for your disdain;
Now I can bear all pain,
Weathered and shattered by society.
Now, I laugh at their hypocrisy;
Where a fatherless kid is treated as a left piece.
With all my tears,
I want to bask in my solitude in my fatherless paradise…..
