EQUAL

An urge to write this

A sense to deny this

That

She isn’t equal.

A victim of Manusmriti

A girl bound with smriti

She has to rewrite this

That

She isn’t equal.

A girl who travels miles to reach this

A girl who is scared to do this

A darkness of oppression

An ingress to education

She fought everyday

To this question

That

She isn’t equal.

When a teacher makes her stand

Because she wore a white band

A color of purity

Yet dignified with anonymity

She is rebuked to dress up nicely.

When sun sets and rise  again

She gulped the previous abuses

And went ahead to dress up nicely.

 She is now no more welcome here

She becomes a character to laugh upon in the class

Her tears went up in vain

Her mother broke the silence

At last

That

She isn’t born equal

So she fight everyday

To become equal

Only with the means to Education.

She faces  abuses every day

Yet she  remain focused

Only

To empower the equality among her people.