Never A Female Poem by Indira Renganathan

Never A Female

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Her body darkly sheathed
On demand for dowry paled
Meanly fed, hungered
Yielded issues diseased
Heaved a heap of work-load
Thinned to be sickened
Folks around nagged
Complained the children unattended
Moneyless, helpless suffered
Versed in painful wedlock, despaired and died

Says the departed soul
'Never a female'

Ignorant of a brutal gale
Blown to be murdered, fateful finale
Blackened body of an infanticide- female
Buried despite dreaming to sprout hale
Many a family wants not a female
For she outgoing dowry- scaled
Many a family wants a male
A son be the earning sail
They practise feticide, infanticide female

There, laments a liberated soul
'Never a female'

Trashed, the baby in the cradle
Bit of the abandoned bundle
Grown to kindle
'Where're my parents to fondle? '
Then stands to reason...'the social turmoil'
Looses her heart to muddle
A composed orphan in puzzle
Self-imposed with struggle
Friends and good people
Though aid doesn't giggle
Deeper in her heart she's a thrown female
Never can she behind her kinship trail

And says the abandoned soul
'Never a female'

Never a female?

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Topic(s) of this poem: social
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ranjit Ravindran 26 September 2009

A perfect picture of the materialistic Indian Psychology. It gives me immense pleasure to say that I also belong to that part of India where women outnumers men.

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Nikunj Sharma 29 June 2009

poignant and realistic............. nice write....full marks....read my poem called LET HER NOT SACRIFICE ANYMORE

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iam blessed with two daughters mam..i am truely happy...son's are no guarentee today...i feel the world lacks feminity and that's why it is on a war path...great write

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Vidi Writes 26 April 2009

Never a female? Its a straight shot into those lines Each paragraph tells very many tales. But for a female... In spite of all the turmoils and tragedies Its better to be born as female... The soft inner settings One can find only in a female. (Exceptions to be exempted) Else how will families survive in this universe? ? Good read indeed. Thank you.

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