A Girl Child # 3 Poem by mithilesh yadav

The pain I got when you born my boy
Got more severe when I thought of your future
Your future and my past

Hope you don't grow as my father
Never you fear if you get a daughter
As because of a daughter you are in this world today.

Hope you don't grow like my relatives
You must rejoice the birth of a girl child
As because a girl will feed you on her blood before your start feeding raw.

Hope you don't grow as my husband
You must respect your wife's feeling
As because of a wife you will be learning a lot.

Hope you don't grow as my brother
You must love and care for me till I grow old and die
Unlike him you don't put me in an elderly home far from your sight.

It is hard to think you grow as my neighbours
You must honour a girl around
As because your mother had been teased same way someday.

Yes, it is true I was afraid of having a girl child
But you must try to make a society
Where a women like me is never afraid to give birth to a girl child.