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Poem from a helpless daughter for her equally helpless mother. The destitution of womanhood and its desires.
Dear Mom, I wish I could give you wings to fly So that you could have ruled the blue sky And your pen wouldn’t have heard your goodbye And you could have held your head high
I wish you had enough choices to make And the walls of domesticity wouldn’t have been your cage So that you wouldn’t have to face the society’s rage And you could be free from the kitchen’s bondage
I wish you weren’t so engrossed in being a mother That you lost all your vigour And you could move ahead of satisfying the other So that you could have sailed farther.
I wish the society wasn’t so unfair And you could’ve been your father’s heir So that you could have transcended horizons rare And you could have traversed the paradigm of care
Lastly, I wish patriarchy was dead And you would have had your desires fed And trampling them everyone would dread Where you could have unabashedly dreamt dreamt and dreamt.
From A destitute daughter.
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