Female Fantasy (India) Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Ahalya was turned into a stone
For her lecherous thought of Indra,
Though she was tired of her old man
In preference to the sky god.

Surpanaka was cut on nose
By Lakshmana, the purity,
For her sexual desire for him,
As if it were a heinous crime.

Renuka was got beheaded
For her horbouring sexual thought
On seeing a man taking bath
In the river while she fetched water.

Sati is the mythic term used
For a woman who is so chaste
That she obtains magical power
Even to withstand heat of fire.

Eve defied God and ate the fruit
Forbidden and she was punished
And made answerable to Adam-
The outlook of the patriarchs.

Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ,
Without union with a man.
And remained as Virgin Mary,
To revere woman's chastity.

A woman must be desirable
With no right to desire a man.
Women who desire are punished.
They've been brought up by this culture.

Female fantasy frightens man.
He would shy away describing
About Draupadi's fantasies
In love making with five husbands.

Man is in control of woman.
She is kept in the cell off men.
She has been domesticated.
Set her free to fantasize like you.
02.03.2017