THE DOWERED DAMSELS!
THE DOWERED DAMSELS!
The apples of several begotten eyes:
Do not get along in the marital ties.
She is traded in the bridal business,
Her knowledge is materially measured,
Her intellect was curtailed to get the matriarchy
asserted,
Her quality is converted into solidity,
Her virtuosity did/does not have a genuine validity!
The four walls, a smokey stove and a Mangal sutra were
given:
Told to perform merciless domestic duties to step into
heaven,
Shameful Chastity, harmful modesty and awful humility were
designed even,
The cultural lunatics quantify them as a motherland
legacy,
She was made to Shoulder such oldest idiocy,
Had renounced dreams and desires to realize those
suppressive fallacies,
In the process, the patriarchy bounced in sociological
epilepsy!
She mustn’t speak to develop him to the state of an
orator:
She shouldn’t venture to salute him a heroic loiter,
She had to cook nutritiously to make him an adorable
hitter,
She ought to be secretive to advance him into a
political traitor,
She had to be miserly to project him as an economical master,
She had to forget her family to let him be a responsible
sinister,
She wasn’t permitted to say no to elevate him to a
dynastic dictator!
Had crossed incalculable centuries to experience subjugation:
Were showered in the name of beautification, protection
and salvation,
Among them, the worst she had to undergo was Sadhi expulsion,
Had to live through the procreating dutybound convention,
And also, there was a misappropriating ritualistic
tradition,
Her cognitive ability was chained to relish the religious
superstition,
Got wedded into unknown territories to confront in-law
persecutions!
Her affiliation to love will reward her with honor
killing:
Her admiration for knowledge will garland with dowery pulling,
Her participation in sporting will crown her with the
contemptuous yelling,
Her expression of artistic rendering will award her an
inequal swelling,
Her celebration outside the threshold will invite only
an abusive drilling,
Her rejection of marriage will drive her in a guilty
feeling,
Her painful narration of husband cruelty will make her opt Silvia’s falling!
Dr. U. Mahendran.
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