Illegal Poem by Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon
Illegal
Not a man
Nor a woman
Not a he nor a she,
It is not legal
To call her he or she,
The society calls her ‘it',
An Illegal Person.
As I lebelled her as ‘her',
This poem is illegal too.
An Illegal Person
Belongs to
An illegal society.
Each one of them
Abandoned by her family
As a new-born,
A little infant.
She has a father
brothers and sisters
Who refuse to
Identify her.
She has a mother
Who is not allowed
To own her up.
She is an illegal person
Of an illegal Society.
She is bad luck
For the family she was born to
For anybody sets their eyes on her,
For she is an ‘it', a thing!
Not a person
Not an individual.
How does she earn her living?
Illegally, obvious!
She sells anything
Including herself
Albeit, illegally.
Thank You, Nate Tulay for rating this poem Five Stars
It is really a pity that, even in these days, the society lives in the age-old taboos and imposes such illegal restrictions on its members. I do not understand how a mother or father can cast away their newborn, for reasons whatever. And the society approves it. Oh! ! ! !
An intersex person continues to live an illegal, secret life, outside the boundaries of the legal society.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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5/10/2024 12:00:42 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Poet Menon, your heart wrenching poem has done great justice to a very sensitive subject. I too find it heartless for any parent to abandon a newborn. At the very least, find the child a home.