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This isn't a Feminist Mark : A poem by Anushka Jana



 However much we think,

Or hate the colour pink,

Can we be fearless like you?

Or be as daring as you?

Do you think we’ve purpose,

Like delicate flowers, a simple rose?

To exhibit when it’s fresh,

And throw when reduced to flesh?

 

Will it be a sin to do?

Things that most of you do,

Blaming, shaming and curbing us,

We wonder how many of us you did curse!

And why would you do so?

Because we let our ambitions grow?

Because we step out of veils

And look fabulous in our esteem,

Or because we love ourselves

And try to look out of kitchen shelves?

We dream to invent remedies,

To sign important treaties,

Pen down novels without pen names

And excel in various games.

Driving cars and repairing lights

And guarding streets on dark nights

And to speak, to debate,

We want to do things and not wait.

And we didn’t sink our hearts,

Neither focus only on sewing skirts,

Nor on only cooking for your bunch of kids,

But we tried to help you pay home bills.

Because we put up with you after a fight,

Don’t think we’ll forget the plight.

What would you do if,

We’re sure at yourself you would sniff,

If after all hard work, your learning and pursuit,

We called that a ‘money waste’?

And what if we evaluate you on your looks,

Andwink at you and say ‘long hair suits you ‘,

Or if our parents gazed at your manner of walk,

And took you home with gold and great talk?

And for the same you want us to be polite,

Because that’s what makes us women, right?

But what do all these letters mean?

Just a plea if you’ve peacefully seen.

This isn’t any Feminist mark,

Neither any allegation on which we lark.

We know you suffer too,

And struggle like we do,

But just like ‘all men aren’t the same’,

Not all women speak out just for fame.

Equality is too small a word to be expressed.

None of us should remain oppressed.

Help each other live and grow,

Prosper, fly and glow.

Let all be as fearless as you’ve always been.

And let all be as daring as you’ve always been.

 


Anushka Jana is a student of Funlish, Class XII

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