No black, no white,
Everything is grey in your mystic world;
You did not teach binaries to me
I could become a human being
In your androgynous world.
I remember a Bengali
As I think of you who
Worships motherhood;
I was your headdress
Your second mother.
You would treat me as if
I’m the Greek goddess who
Sprang from her father’s head;
I wish I could always cover you
As your loving headdress.
(“My Father” is a tribute to my late father and a response to Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”.)
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