Happy Women’s Day

Welkin Siskin

Happy Women’s Day

For the world bereft of light she is Gaia

For the world narrowed by worldly affairs she is Rhea,

For those in need she is Venus

Who with beauty has created us;

For those aspiring to all untold love

She is Hebe

For she is the one to teach family how to behave;

She is Freyja, for she teaches aesthetic value and charm;

She is Eos from whom the dawn awakes and the orange red glitters;

She is Artemis who teaches to stay pure and sacred;

And she is Aphrodite who paints thy image

With the beauty the world bestows you.

@ Welkin Siskin

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Why Me???

Sunita Paul

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Why always me ?

When I was just learning to walk

They had already started to stalk

Touching the unwanted places

How dirty were their sinned faces

They could never see a child’s innocence

For they had already killed their conscience.

Why always me?

Crumpling a flower in it’s budding stage

They tried to put me in a cage

Little me still fluttered her wings

Many songs in my soul to sing

So I started making my way

For I am here to stay.

But then why always me?

As a teen girl,

With beautiful curls

Each and everyone waiting in queue to propose

But I was always eager to dispose

Even then those invisible hands and eyes grabbed me

I could never be as a normal girl should be

It was always me.

For the teacher who came to teach

Or the temple priest who faked in saint’s disguise tried to preach

None left any stone unturned to molest and crush a young girl’s belief

Not a single person she found could give her heart relief

Even the next door uncle or cousin brother

All tried to touch her unwanted parts without any least bother

Why it had to be only me?

As I reached the matured age

Learnt that the world is an acting stage

Here a man proposes indecent to you

But to his wife/girlfriend he promises his fake love is true

My lost mother protected me so well

Otherwise the planet is more dangerous than hell

I too would have been torn to pieces by now

Here women are raped but they worship a cow

Why it happens with me

Is it a curse to be Big or Beautiful

Why such adjectives are used to appreciate a woman like hot or cool?

Why cannot a man love or appreciate the heart

Why is it lust from the very start?

Still I am searching for the answer

All the questions which have made a deep scar

But then I realise that all those people/incidents

Made me so strong that my life’s canvas only I can paint

Now I can easily distinguish between good and evil

And can fight against all devils

Lastly I wanna thank the almighty for showering blessings on me

Empowering me as I always dreamt to be.

©®Sunita