Being a girl
Ain’t a sin
No matter what
Colour Caste or Creed
For that matter what
Religion she was born in
We do not live in
Ivory Towers
Treated like Queens
Carried around by
Bronzed muscle men
In Palanquins
Women may be Aryan
Dravidian Yellow Black or White
All we ask is a sprinkling of love
Understanding of Dignity
Respect as well Equality
Women ain’t a mold of clay
To be bruised battered abused
Each & everyday
As well fashion them
In anyway
Women are human beings
With emotion & real feelings
No can force
Their will on others
As we have a free will
So unchain the shackles
Of tyranny
As we want to
Break Free!!
Farida Bamji