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*Being a woman as I am
Is all wrong they say
Listen to me, they teach
What's the right way
*Tumeric powder for fair skin
Suggests the all-knowing traditional trad
Na, better to use creams and bleach
Advices the snobbish ultra-modern mod
*Fully dress up and decked - trad says carry your belief on body like a doll inert
Mod dressing is exotic and catching up the latest style expert
Well, don't both deny comfort ?
*Trad says English speaking is bad, especially for a girl
Mod feels mastery over mother tongue to be backward, rural
*Trad opines that too much of education corrupts females
Mod expects one to be a know-it-all, memorizing world's all tales
*Trad favous the family above all
Mod is in favour of friendships standing tall - Both ignore the individual inner CALL
*Trad life is all full of blind beliefs and superstitions
Mod life is totally rational, devoid of emotions
*Trad demands to change lifestyle and tastes according to husband
Mod too demands constant change, but according to latest trend
*Trad overglorifies marriage and motherhood, reducing women to drudgery and reproduction
Mod overglorifies ambitious career, leading to stress and forced masculization
*Trad buries self underneath
In name of being rooted
Mod gives wings to fly
Leaving one fully uprooted
*Trad life’s fulfillment comes
Living according to Tradition
The Mod asks are you even alive, Without being up-to-date Modern
*Both say they advice out of love & care
To make their crap seem sensible
They all talk and laugh behind my back
And are Gossip, Bitchy, Judgemental
*This way or that
Caught between the Deep Sea and Devil
I decided to take cream of both sides
And filter out the husk of Evil
*A middle path I choose to create
Away from all mindless scrutiny
I'm not here to fulfill expectations
I'm born with my own Destiny
*Can't pick one side of these two
As they both are wrong
As I can Remain a Woman
And also be Strong
*With flaws and fails and virtues and wins
I am what I AM
Unmindful of incessant chatter
March to the beat of my own Drum
*Making annoying assumptions
Both are two sides of the same coin
Never really fully acknowledge and appreciate
the vastness and depth of the Feminine
*Which is why I finally turn towards the Divine
While fully retaining control of
sane own mind of mine
*Shielded away from madness, I'm my own Queen secluded in Purdah
Always cared and loved, I'm proud to be,
Daughter of Mother Goddess Durga 🪔🌺🙏