Respectability....?

Yes it’s mutual

Nonetheless being women we are far more vulnerable

Juggling many worlds

A well groomed daughter, a doting sister, a favorite daughter-in-law

Home-maker wife and affectionate mother

Pheeeew! How many hats, one can don

Reincarnated...?

Resurrected.....?

Nonetheless being women we are far more vulnerable

Lofty objectives to fulfill

Caring, endearing, tearful but smiling

Crying yet laughing

Perpetually at war to preserve our individuality

And seeking solace in divinity

A great feat indeed

Along the road 'on guard'

Excusing... Slipping... Escaping

Just in time from the

Preying vultures, antelopes on prowl

Oh 'advances' of those glib-tongued protectors

We have to keep an eye on

Protect our modesty and yet not appear offended

Much less sound offending

Learn young to interpret gestures

Process post-haste those verbal and not so verbal onslaughts

Jeering colleagues, ogling neighbors and 'extra kind' fellow passengers

And leering seniors

Yes being women we are far more vulnerable

We, the Man! The lesser mortal

“With inflated ego”

Seeking solace in ‘mythical fairies’

Ever groping in dark, mystical world

Where have all fairies disappeared?

Did they ever live here at first place?

No wonder we are emotional fools

Hasten to flaunt and waste our emotions

Misplaced flow drains us

Leaves us, devoid of solemnity and maturity

Leaves us lost in vast vacuum

"Man! When will we grow up?”

Always untidy, grotesque

Cluttering your lives with superfluous trivia

You who are forever jostling to treasure

Your ‘purity’

In this polluted world full of pompous men

With impure intentions

And yes if only we could be deported

To the utopia of fairies and queens

Umbilical chord intact, condemned to die

Ever waiting for those fairies and queens

Like a

Migrant, stranded for 'local' on a mega block day

In our bubble

Till someone bursts it

Crashing us face-down to coarse hard realities

Gratitude! Where it is due, that is you

For bridling the 'loose' us

When will we demystify and learn

To live in the ‘present’

Away from fake world of make believe celluloid

Fairies and queens do not live here anymore

They died long back

Rest in peace

Amen!