O! Mother my dear mother
This world is very awful
Take me back in your lap
Hide me again in your womb
O! Mother I never told you
No one cares and loves me
As you did, yes mother always
No one is there to share my pain
Today he inquired of my caste
I didn’t lied to him, he was friend
Mama his face flushed at one
When he heard I am an untouchable
Evening I went in the mess for food
He came with his other friends
Look at him he is an untouchable
O! Mother I was alone in the crowd
I had taken bath before going there
Still they called me, “Dirty pig”
Mother I didn’t argued with them
I bowed and kept listening abuses
O! Mother they threw away my plate
Pulled me back when I wanted to leave
I trembled like a girl about to be raped
I wept, My head was trying to explode
I woke up on a stinking hospital bed
O! Mother body is aching too much
My wound bandaged, fracture plastered
Pillow hurts only your lap would relieve
Sister throws medicine from a distance
During there rounds doctors don’t stop
Ward boy throws food as if I am a dog
Hands ache come feed me with your hand
O! Mother I know father will beat me
He always says I don’t have patience
Last time he thrashed me in public
He said this way he saved me from them
My desire to live has evaporated
Like a water boiling in a container
Father always tries to freeze this vapor
But never tries to remove source of fire
No mother these disgrace will not end
Untouchabilty is illegal only on papers
No one can erase it from their minds
O! Mother please hide me in your womb
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