Denied Motherhood Poem by chandra thiagarajan
Denied Motherhood
Lovely Motherhood divine
God for me didn’t design
For totally barren I am
And have not passed the exam.
It was not my mirth
To give child- birth
And am wallowing in self-pity
As I don’t have that capacity.
When I see babes being fed
Blood courses fast in my head
Mother and child’s proximity
Disturb’s my equanimity.
Why am I motherhood denied
Fate has made me to cry and dried
I extremely feel the loss of a child
When the world at me does deride.
When colleagues, of their children talk
My heart jolts and gets a mock
I speak of my siblings’ children, in lieu
And that of my neighbour’s children, I knew.
At such times I desperately pine
But to have a child I have no sign
I see many children playing
But mine there it is missing.
People’s pity, for me, I can’t bear
Their advices for me a child to bear
Their suggestions and proposals are a hundred
Their prescriptions fill me with hatred.
During family functions when people invite
All ladies, the auspicious lamp to light
I take a flight and am sad with my plight
As I am considered inauspicious with spite.
There is not a soul to call me “Mummy”
My heart yearns for it—I feel I am a dummy
O God! At least in my future birth
Please bestow on me a child on this Earth.
Many a woman are childless and suffer the grief personally and socially.My youngest sister is childless even after 10 years of marriage and I can understand the poem better.I pray to God for all such women. The feelings of a childless mother are rightly depicted in the poem.
A very poignant poem of the inability to have a child. It is quite a hardship for a woman, especially when others around them are holding and playing with their children. Looking and wishing to have a child of your own, but it never happens. An underlying melancholy and silent tension beneath the words of your poem. Thank you for sharing. RoseAnn
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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An outstanding write Mam. Every line you have written is true and is observed very much nowadays everywhere. a very touchy poem.