A Man Imprisoned Iinside Bottle Poem by Tulsi Shrestha

A Man Imprisoned Inside Bottle
Feels himself dead alive inside it.
Boundary of bottle is transparent
And clear for his vision of fearful sight.
He witnessed marriage of his own papa
With teenage girl, younger than him.
But he was unable to oppose polygamy.
Sound of silence always wounded him.
He lived dead alive with bleeding heart.
He still remember bloody tears of sister
When she was restricted to join school.
In the name restoration traditional culture
His own marriage was settled with
Teen uneducated girl against his will.
He too observed how his beloved mom
Was burned alive in funeral pyre of papa
To justify her loyalty to dead husband.
Whenever he tried to rebel aginst
Social norms and religious violence
Society screwed bottle's cap so tight
Reverberated echo of his voice
Limited inside four walls of bottle.
The air available for him inside bottle
Was not enough for him
To breathe as human being.
In fact, he had already
Lost the glory of being human.
But he is still optimistic
Waiting for the pleasant day
When trapped voice will
Definitely break bottle
To release its echo
Through out the world
To justify.....

Composed by Tulsi Shrestha
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