An Ode To A Girl Child

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If you have lived in India like I have if you have seen the graph of a girl child like we all have you will understand the inherent pain of womanhood where she stands now in front of locked doors with a punishing school bag a metaphor for the blows she will face when she take a few more steps forward.

Her story is unique strange and painful, at every step of her onward march of life , her story is not a hit television series , her life is stalked by fear unknown fear, and those died at Kurla Nehru Nagar will not be able to tell you what they saw what they felt the beginning and the end , heinously choked out by the lust of Man. I refer to the recent serial rapes in that area against the little girls and their gruesome murders.

Society is like Pontius Pilate it washes its hands after every horrendous episode till the episodic memory becomes a statistic of death a closed Police file.

This is my Introduction to the girl child and mind you I have two a daughter a grand daughter and two I got as default as a father in law.

i wondered
what it was
that held her
mystified
was she
enacting
a role
on a street
of life
shivering
tongue tied
the bag
crushing
her but
she held
firmly
a karmic
punishment
of her heritage
denied
her vision
towards
the horizon
glass eyed
her hands
forever tied
as she continues
her journey
arduous ride
if she is lucky
if things go well
she will be
a blooming bride
but if the lines
of fate
on her palm
are little
unaligned
than will come
another halt
beatings taunts
dowry demand
husband watching
helplessly as
they kill
her womanly
pride an indian
woman her
kismet
her nasib
she must abide
going back
to her mothers house
is next to impossible
against a cultural norm
she cant decide
than one day
lit up for
one last time
for the sins of
her misfortune
she was unduly tried
the system bon
through the entrails
of greed evil
she was finally
crucified


such were my
dark
thoughts
when
i captured
a girl child
against
locked doors
inside
outside
the balance sheet
of life
the girl child
is placed
in India
usually
on the debit side
a child making
machinery
Ishwar
will
provide
but after marriage
if she gives birth
to another
girl child
throttling the neck
is called
female infanticide