I AM A GIRL

I am a girl!

Born in a family

Love, care and respect everybody.

Get medium or no education.

But still I smile and keep them smiling.

Want to sing, play and dance,

Bloom like flower and emerge as flying colors.

But force to bond into marriage.

Still I agree.

I am a girl!

How difficult is to move in another family.

But I adjust,

Playing my roles and responsibilities,

Making a place somewhere in their hearts.

When one day being asked for my jewellery

Being innocent- I handed them.

Next being asked for money,

Gave my saved pennys.

But received their anger-

Call your parents.

But why-I asked.

For money.

But they are retired.

Then ask to die.

I cried, was scolded,

Tortured, locked.

I was a meek recipient of everything,

Didn’t raise my voice.

I am a girl!

Finally one day 

Was forced, oiled and fired.

I cried, a weak cry of help,

Which soon turned into ashes?

I accept my fate, my destiny.

I am a girl!