Stolen & Secret Love/ Conservative Father, Conservative Mother, But The Daughter Is Not/ Love In A Tabooed Society Just Like A Caged Bird Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Under the pretext of going to college, they used to move out
To the cineama hall
Enjoying the matinee show
And the guardians taking it for
That their wards at college.

Under the pretext of exchanging books and notes,
They used to exchange love letters,
Written in hiding,
Telling of stolen and hidden love
Burning within the heart.

Conservative mother, conservative father of conservative society,
But the daughter not,
A liberal fellow
Whose heart brimming with love,
The flame burning still.

But the father strict and stubborn, will not understand,
Ready to take stern measures
Against the pulsating heart,
The poor soul at the centre of hers,
What can she do all alone
A simple girl in trouble?

Where to go, what to do, the dove helpless,
Writhing in pain,
Singing the notes of pain,
Oh, the pain of heart,
Making restless,
Unbearable indeed?