Reluctant Embrance

- Is One of my favourite poem, which is worded by my daughter Nancy Bindal .
जब Nancy की यह कविता मैंने  पहली बार पढ़ी तो इसके शब्दों ने मुझे अंदर तक झकझोर दिया , लगा भूकम्प आ  गया है । अब महसूस करती  हूँ कि  कब हम दिमागी और वास्तविक रूप  से स्वतंत्र होंगे लिंग भेद को लेकर ?

Reluctant Embrace

Nine months were done,but `that hour ' lay,

Swaying between hope and despair 

My "unwanted angel" you ushered out 

Crying lamentations that we  now share.

The womb that bore you so long, 

Wish would have carried a son instead

I'd lived my life as a woman, child

It called upon you , to walk ahead .

No flower offered to the temple Gods,

Not a conch shell blown the day you were born

The mantras were chanted in frenzy 

Your life , your destiny, deliberately torn .

Shackled by chains , given in early marriage

Educate to assist ,not to debate 

Your ideology fainted in mute protests

Alas ! That was to instruct, not educate!

Adorned in bridal finery for the world to know 

You lay here dead, unloved and unmourned

An accidental fire or a dowry death ?

Confined to a statistic in police records .

Your life was brief and best forgotten

A subject of pain and disgrace

My girl I offer you the reasons herein

That justify my reluctant embrace !!

-Nancy Bindal