Life would have been a treat
If with love my birth was greet
They left me on the street
To fend for my daily meat.

Was it such a crime
To want and to pine
For that which was mine!

Left in the lurch,
Like a lonely birch
With just my soul to clutch.

The look in some men’s eyes
Remind me I am still alive!
Betrayed, vulnerable
Soul entombed in feminine guise!

jyoti saxena

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-only-i-could-breath/