8th of March (An Introspection)
It's 8th of March,I stayed at home,
I did not celebrate!
The silence of death reigned in the streets,
My soul was inundate
With cries of helpless women & children,
That echoed with impotent rage:
The baby girl in the womb smiles
Innocently at me:
"Save me! From my death!"
She cries,
"Death before I'm even born!"
"From being stifled in my womb,
I want to escape my watery tomb,
And see the world in its bloom..."
The girl in rags on the street,
Grins impishly at me:
Oblivious of the shame and neglect,
Ignorance, and abject poverty...
The precocious child-woman,
Of forbidden nooks of society,
Sneers at me jeeringly:
"What have you done?
To save my flesh,
From the devilish trade
Of innocent feminity?"
The "Burning Bride",
With anguish cries:
"Save me, from "my Savior",
-My cruel "Companion of Eternity!"-
For oppressed centuries..."
The mother Earth hangs
Her head in shame:
"What has become of my children?
To bring about this carnage of humanity,
To dance this bloody dance
Of savage brutality?
I ponder, muse and introspect:
"What have I done?
To alleviate their pain,
To maintain life's sanctity?
What right have I to celebrate?
-To rejoice insanity?"
The time has come
To break the chains,
To free myself of my own pain,
To do something,
This little something,
To save humanity:
The virgin feminity...
Author: Zoya Zaidi
8th of March 2002
Aligarh (UP), India
Copyright©: Zoya Zaidi
Poetry by Zoya Zaidi
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Written on 2006-03-08 at 17:58
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