Why Are The Daughters So Ignored & Neglected In Our Society? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

May I know,
Why are the daughters
So ignored and neglected
In our society?

Is it for the medieval period
Of misrule and maladministration,
Is it for superstition and backwardness,
Is it for illiteracy and un-education?

May I poise the question before,
Why are the daughters a debt,
A burden for the family
In which born?

Why are they so neglected, so pushed against
The background with the body against the wall,
Why are they a tortured self for ages,
Was it the purdah
Which wreaked havoc for them?

Was it poverty and hunger, was it orthodoxy,
Conservatism and faithfulness,
Was it our blindness,
Was it an inadvertent error not
But sinned we against humanity?