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Daughter of Durga

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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 🪔🌺🙏

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Anonymous said…
Truly amazing.
6 October 2022 at 21:32
Shamita said…
sooo gud!!!
12 October 2024 at 12:31
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