HER PLIGHT

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Denounced as witches and burnt by Christians

Hindus forced you to sit on burning pyre as Sati

Muslims put you behind a permanent curtain

Since antiquity you have been a subject of pity

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Countless times you have been dishonoured

As Draupadi in the mehfil full of mighty heads

Or to adjust in the male dominated society

As an article, have to warm up their egos and beds.

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Denounce the religion that put you behind bars

As no religion can be supreme over humanity

Break those chains that have crippled your flight

For no bird has been made to be in cage of cruelty

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You have been the idol of affection as a mother

Have suffered physical pain, sacrificed the whole life

As daughter and sister, have revered everyone

And left own home to decorate other’s as a wife

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Own counterpart of men, how can she be let down

In what field she couldn’t excel and made us all surprise

Worshiped for ages as an epitome of kindness and love

She can also be a “Kali”, horrifying whole sky and abyss

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Like a flower of lotus, you have bloomed smiling in dirt

But it’s your right to have a “clean” place of your choice

As customs are made by men, so customs can be broken

Neither religion nor men, but rule of humanity must rejoice.

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