Carrying the Burden of Her Race

Carrying the Burden of Her Race, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

woman
her life
her hardships
her struggle
her failures
her defeat
face to face
limping
towards
her destination
robbed of dignity
robbed of every space
sometimes she is a mother
but a woman she is always
sold in the bazar lost
without trace a commodity
to appease mans lust his dark
desires a woman to life
the greatest price she pays
woman who deserves this
poetic praise unknown to me
on the cross roads of life
carrying the burden of her race
going round and round
in a worldly maze she
will marry a man
his children she will raise
in return for her shortcomings
man will set her ablaze
we have seen this from
the early days
woman a misnomer
a word totally
misplaced
woman from birth
to death
from the cradle
to the grave
pre doomed

BETRAYED