Had I Been A Man, I Would Have Thanked God And Felt Myself Blest Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

I had a desire of becoming a man since long,
But sorry to say,
I could not be
What I had wanted,
The desire of becoming a man at least
Could not be fulfilled.

What became I, mattered it not,
What I have become-
This pains me often to feel,
How inhuman have I grown
Over the passing years,
This cruel passage of time.

I too had wanted to be a man,
A man in need of another man,
But sorry to see,
I could not be
What I had dreamt of
As for becoming a man
And it is really to find a good man
Though there may be many to be called so.

Had I been, I would have felt myself blest,
Had I been manly,
A man behaving as a man,
At the giving and receiving end of his,
So human and humane,
I would have thanked God
As for making it,
But the company corrupted me
And turned I so much of being inhuman.