I am,
Am fighting
Gender bias
In India,
Pakistan
And developing
Countries
Come you,
Come you later
As ours is
A conservative,
Tabooed,
Patriarchal,
Orthodox,
Male-dominated
Society.
Before come,
Come you,
Say you,
You
Whether a male
Or female baby
And if a male,
I shall celebrate it
With too much jubilation
And if a female baby,
I shall,
Shall mourn your coming,
Coming,
Darling!
Into a daru man has he turned out to beLying with a bottle of wine.
I got, got that,But only one thing I could notThat to be man, how to be!Sorry to say, I could not be man,Had I been, it would have given to me happiness more,Oh, sorry to say, I could not, could not be man!In this world of today,Human population has doubled,But how many of us ae…
Do not be sad,I do not want to see youIn tears,My daughter,Small daughter.
The fire-worshippers,Temple-kissers,The peacock sign adorersOf Iraq,The Yezidis?Who the sun worshippers,Lamp burners?With belief in LalishThey still struggling to survive,Live upNearing the brunt in SinjarAnd living as refugees.
Song of AmericaOf the American states,States of the confederation,Its Americanness,AmericanismOf Alabama, Alaska,Arizona, Arkansas,California, Colorado,ConnecticutOf Delaware,Florida, Georgia,Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa,Kansas, Kentucky,Louisiana, Maine,Maryland, Massachusetts,Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,Missouri, MontanaNebraska, Nevada,New Hampshire, New Jersey,New Mexico, New York,North Carolina, North DakotaOhio, Oklahoma, Oregon,Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,South Carolina, South Dakota,Tennessee, TexasUtah, of Vermont, Virginia,Washington, West Virginia,Wisconsin,Wyoming sing IOf the Statue of Liberty,The Charter,The American…
By artisans, craftsmen, carpentersSee I,Look I the grotesque, bizarre statuesOf Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra.
