Equality

 Equality

 

 

He screamed 'why why a girl, I hoped it was a boy'.

 

It's a burden on us now it's all because of you , all because of you.

 

Her mother cried , 'because of me your life now will be ruined'

 

I hope you die because if you live, it won't be a life worth living

 

One month later they made me marry a  boy I did not know nor I could say no,

 

 

I was one month old 

No one  stopped  this act of 'Child marriage'

 

I wasn't taught maths, English but was taught  how to cook food and how to clean houses,

 

At the age of 7, they sent me to work in a factory so that I could contribute in the family's capital,

 

Though my muscles pained no one did even care 

 

It was decided I have to leave home when I will be 12

 

And stay with people I hardly know and having a husband 8 years elder to me 

 

He came home drunk every night 

And hit me  with a belt all the night 

 

God did bless me by killing him by the addiction he had 

 

Those  weren't the modern days, I was made to be sit with my dead husband,

 

 

I thought of running away but the fire caught me before I moved,

 

I was burnt but my soul was now set free.....

 

Janwee mukim (XII)

LML SCHOOL

 

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