I was just a sperm about to die until I found your womb and life came to me;
I would have died taking birth but you soaked all the pain and gifted me my first breath;
I was almost a parasite for the first few months sucking you biting you and clinging on you all the time but you made it look like the most beautiful sight in the world;
I wouldn’t have learnt to walk if you hadn’t stopped everything else in your life to walk with me;
I would have never endured the treacherous school if you hadn’t held my hand with a smile, carried my school bag along with yours and waited to embrace me with your open arms;
I wouldn’t have learnt much if you hadn’t allowed me to copy those notes and saved my days;
I wouldn’t have experienced beauty and bliss if you hadn’t shared those sparkling smiles with me;
I wouldn’t have created much if you hadn’t supported me with your talents and energy and patience;
I wouldn’t have inspired anything if you hadn’t offered your listening;
I would never have been a friend if I hadn’t had you as one;
I would have never been able to feel warm if you hadn’t offered yours;
I would have never learnt to cry if you hadn’t shown me the courage it needed;
I wouldn’t have left a legacy if you hadn’t enabled it through you;
I would have been lost if you had not found me;
I know you never needed me but I wouldn’t have existed without you,
I wish I knew it enough…