This Is How A World Was Created Poem by Arvind Srivastava

Mother came from a place called Bairiya in Muzaffarpur
Aunt from Belahi in Sitamarhi
Sister-in-law from Ghatoh village in Samastipur
And wife from Kilaghat in Munger

Similarly, some women came to the neighbourhood from provinces like UP, Bengal and Rajasthan
Despite this, they were called the women of the locality
The locality was settled only because of their arrival

They had suppressed many of their desires
In the worst of times, they had shared their courage and hopes
With the family
The locality was populated only because of their indomitable courage
Despite this
Till her last days, she was deprived of seeing
The entire locality

She had crossed the perimeter of the locality
By mixing in the atmosphere
The discussion of her talent and beauty

These Women used to prepare themselves for difficult times by planting vegetables in every corner of the plot

On festivals like marriage, puja-paath
Whenever they met
The chorus of their songs used to be the same
Their lamentations on the grief of death used to be the same

These women had come as seeds
They had conceived by getting wet with the soil here
They had written stories of creation
They had developed a world in the form of a mohalla

In this way many small worlds were getting settled in the city
By becoming mohallas!