You saved me, you should

remember me.

That time when the waters 

uploaded on train tracks

I had no money, 48 hours plus

you helped me back. 

The time when I was lost 

you pretended I was your girl 

violated the curfew to reach

my father in hospital. 

The time I was roaming the night

and some stranger thought 

I was his to take, you ran out

to the rescue, burst the myth. 

The other day walking

falling into the shrubs, dogs 

and jackals pulling every which way

you set me free. 

Many more, many more

kindnesses I have lived,

unnamed, but not forgotten, 

many that I have missed. 

I see my fathers in every

kindness I feel and see 

for I would not have been,

but for the grace I received.

Surely, spring has returned

this year, tenderly, gardenias bloom

in your gardens, 

all is as it ought to be. 

But you saved me, you should

Remember me.