She had lost many

She had lost many...yet copious more embraced her...

She's been around...14 years back it was when she had left her small village Bhati in the hinterland of MP...her husband alongside her...their two siblings in tow...the younger just around a year old. In search of work...they had traversed with empty pockets...and hope for a better tomorrow.

They toiled...happy they were in their own world...her smile never revealing the many she had lost...

Mummy is what our girls call her...they embrace her as their very own...as if it is she who had begotten them from her very own womb...

Born healthy...one and a half to four years old they were when they had breathed their last...in her arms...five daughters in all...

She had lost many of her very own...and many have found in her their very own...their mother...