WHEN WILL WE
ENJOY OUR SWEET EMANCIPATION?
What is our crime
of being a girl child?
We are neither
inhuman nor wild,
We are neither
alien nor savage.
Why are we then deprived
of a man’s privilege?
What is our
calumny of being a girl child,
Why are we ever
used, abused and misused and riled?
Why are we ever,
as inferior, discarded and underrated,
Why are we ever undervalued and
underestimated?
What is our
offence of being a girl child?
Is Nature’s
purity, by our birth, ever defiled?
Why are we ever
deemed and pitied as ill-fated,
Why are we never
in the schemes of things well-suited?
What is our
blunder of being a girl child?
Why is our life
no different from a ravaged battle field,
Why are we ever
at the mercy of the masculine society,
Why are we ever
born to succumb to fear, fright and anxiety?
What is our sin
of being a girl child?
Why are we ever
called naïve, inept and too mild,
Why is our
himility ever unduly taken for granted?
Are we really like
soots useless, worthless and unwanted?
How long will we
be the easy preys to the ugly male domination?
When will we be
released from the hateful cages of discrimination,
When will we relish
the legislative flavour of the Constitution,
When will we
enjoy our birth right – the sweet Emancipation?
N.B: This poem is
dedicated to all the neglected girl children across the world on the occasion of International Girl Child Day.
©Shankar D Mishra
11.10.2017
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