The gender-MalesA Poem by Nisha Varinka ChettriiMusing in an event of mothers day, while some mothers face such predicaments in life, this is an untold story of such mother.When
skies slowly turns blue I
will be polishing my son's shoe You
know, it awfully rained last afternoon, But
sun rose soon Oh
what a day? To
my man, I'll have nothing to say I
was to dry his shirt which I just washed But
the overwhelming droplets that recently gushed spoilt
my day In
a bad way;
He
is an angry man Who
drives a maruti-van, Now
what will I say? For,
he might be on his way. His
arrogance once killed my unborn kid, And
now I see the cigarette he just lit, Oh!
He's on the door. He
will abuse me, call me a w***e! Because
his shirt was washed and wet He'll
now abuse, compare me with the women he just met;
Oh!
What a life? He
never considered me his wife, Now
I want someone to call my own, Or
just want to go away from home, I
want a child to ease my fright, I
don't know why I can’t fight for my own right. It
again rained and it was dark And
here I was sulked to hear him bark I
ready with my dagger opened the door, Without
a sound I killed, leaving him on the floor
Now
I live in tranquility and my womb fiddles with joy After
9 months I gave a birth to a baby boy. Who
now wedded a woman from the East; And
looking for love I faded in the mist, I
am no longer a wife or a mother I
now wish that I had a brother. Such
is my fate That
is filled with hate, Unthought-of
it when vermilion was tinged on my forehead; I
sadly give up and consider them dead A
husband, a son, their gender, males! With
their memories, my every attempt to live, fails. © 2016 Nisha Varinka Chettrii |
StatsAuthorNisha Varinka Chettriikalimpong , west bengal , IndiaAbouti am a journalist and a poet who really acts as a watchdog of our society. more.. |