On Baharis

I barely knew you
And I knew almost nothing of
When and how you were born
   Or who your parents were 
   Or how you got here
   Or how you found yourself being
A young bride in a strange land
Surrounded on all sides 
By people who did not love you
And did not care that you were barely loved 

I barely knew your life
But I know that in the young years 
Of my own life
You loved me with the fierce tenderness
Of a lioness, claws and all 

Maybe they never loved you
But you had love abundant 
Your love, transcendant 
For me, for us