World Women's Day Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

World Women's Day,
What to say it about,
How to celebrate it,
International Women's Day,
Thinking about women's rights
Down the ages,
The struggles and sufferings
Or women,
Sacrifices?
But also hearing the notes of dissent,
The voices of anger and bewilderment,
Frustration and loss,
How were they tortured, maligned,
Subjected to inhuman exploitation?
Women's movements and protests
We have suppressed it for long.
We have toned their voices,
Throttled and stuffed,
Their liberties we have curtailed it,
We have censured it
Their freedom of speech and expression
And have treated them as slaves
Down the ages
As caged birds.
Social conventions and traditions
Bind them, let them not come out
Of the courtyards,
The patriarchal ghettos,
Flesh trade, human trafficking,
Domestic violence and bruise,
Gender bias and financial scarcity
Crush it cruelly
Making it life so pathetic?
A woman's silent weeping
Who has tried to understand it
The heart of a woman?