8 March International Womans Day Through The Eyes of Maria The Leper Lady, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.
congratulations
to womanhood
celebrating
the emancipation
of their fair gender
on this auspicious day
upholding
the spirit of freedom
as they say
poets have nothing
but with words
they play digressing
as they stray
so my role model
is maria the leper lady
who sits at bandra
hill road close
to where i stay
eyes gone blind
sockets filled
with sores
stumps for hands
she begs every day
her daughter is also
a beggar by the way
but her grand children
both a girl a boy
with money
she saved
paved the way
educated
well bought up
in every way
cultured
sociable
proud of their
grand mother
a leper
heart of gold
feet made
of clay
whether
she can
see them
or feel them
is hard to say
