For You Only Poem by Madhabi Banerjee

When my mother bore me, very anxious she was
And after stipulated period
Into her arms as a daughter l came
And seeing me at first glance
She exclaimed ‘a daughter a'las'
That was the beginning.
Father said ‘it is nothing but the spendthrift'
Brother said'what! a woman and headache? How funny'
Boss remarked ‘oh! my god! , after all she is a lady, impossible'
Husband said ‘a woman and intelligent! oh! no! '
Society demand ‘a woman deserves no right,
By dint of men's sympathy-her existence.
Family expect ‘a woman tries to make a family happy
Never tries to be happy'
Beings so much insulted, so much subdued,
So much disrespected, so much lack of love,
Still a woman says ‘I will come, I will live
I will rise for you only'.