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Pushmaotee Subrun
She was aborted a million times when she
was an embryo,
She was widowed even before knowing she
married,
She wore the grey nun’s garment before she
understood why,
She was raped when she was a baby of six
months old,
She was not spared either at eighteen,
Or at the age of eighty,
She was mutilated and deprived
Of the God given seat of pleasure on
reaching puberty,
She was stoned to death in the name of
honour killings.
She was given capacity to love but not
allowed to love…
She became the wife with stars in her eyes
but soon disillusioned,
She was used as a machine to procreate,
She was abused, beaten black and blue and
used again,
Where is equality, justice and human
dignity?
Why talk of a just world when so much has
still to be realized?
Why so much of yearly publicity on 10th
December?
Rabindranath Tagore rightly said,
The clear stream of reason has lost its wayInto the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Very true!! Excellent Pushmaotee Subrun!
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