Words between DREAM & REALITY

Save Girl Child

' It's a girl' answered the nurse,
But it sounded more like a curse,
Your happiness turned to pain,
You desired of a boy, but all went in vain.

Now the society will also mock at you,
The merry plans soon turned to blues ,
I saw your face dropped, when you saw me, right?
Daddy, am I that bad, that you're thinking to take away my life!

And now I know you'll torture your wife,
' how dare you give birth to this filthy little life?'
But daddy, it's not her fault,
Please let me live, and I'll love you a lot.

But you pushed her away, and held me in your arms,
It's for the first time, I felt your touch so soothing and warm,
But I know what you're thinking in your mind,
Begging for my life, when she cried from behind.

But daddy daddy, can you kiss my forehead once?
And after that I promise I'll make stop, my breathing lungs,
And daddy if you let me survive in this world,
I'll make you proud one day, just keep my words.

Though I can't elude from my death you know,
If you want to kill and bury me deep down, below,
But I'm happy I'm having you both, mom and dad,
No matter if you hate me dad.

So now you shrugged her off and went out in cold,
You kept shivering even in the sweater, while I was wrapped with just cotton clothes,
I cried, hoping this time you could hear my pain,
But being so merciless daddy, you let it go again.

After walking so far in the night,
You kept me down the road, in the weather so misty and white,
Without turning back once, you went,
And I struggled to live, but surely not to circumvent.

So, being a girl is a curse, right?
Then why are they still fighting for equal men and women's rights?
Again a girl will be killed inside a women's womb or on a road like me,
And all you'll do is just watch, and let it be...

Thank you.

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What? Hoping for a happy ending? But let me tell you this isn't a movie going on, it's a reality. The little soul died in this poem, begging for life. And this happens, everytime those narrow minded people kill a girl child inside their women's womb, or sometimes after they're born, and everytime a little soul sacrifices herself just in a hope that maybe another girl will be saved in future...
I mean... Seriously are we that bad, that you're only desiring of a boy?
Are we that bad, that you're killing us mercilessly and then craving to get a girlfriend and wife in future?
And if that's so, I may tell you that even demons are better than those people... At least they don't judge according to the gender. Right?
Nothing more to say but SAVE GIRL CHILD.

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© To ANNANYA SHARMA.