Being A Girl Child In India Poem by hemu gupta

Being A Girl Child In India



If I am a girl child I will be recognized soon
and will be killed in womb,
If I survived I will be born to grow
as a second grade life in comparison to boys in home,
If I grow well I will be treated in society as doll,
having no feelings for her but to prove herself in conditions all,
In my youth I will be married to a man of my parents choice
by giving dowry to in laws
I had to live as a good wife in my married life,
If I am a home maker I had to give birth and make a family
and embrace hardship of being mother in life
killing her own feelings in fumes.
when I will become old I will be treated,
as burden by my own children and will die in distress and found that I had done nothing for my own,
and had treated myself as a girl child killed in womb.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sphoothi Theatre 09 September 2011

Greetings! Your poem touched me. The expressions are true, however, girls are treated and accepted, appreciated in our country. May be we also need to see the other side of the coin too.

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