! ! ! ! ! I Wonder Who Was This Guy...! ! ! ! ! Poem by Mamta Agarwal

! ! ! ! ! I Wonder Who Was This Guy...! ! ! ! !

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I wonder why…
Am I denied
A ride on the swing.

I wonder why…
Am I deprived
Of Colours in my life.

I wonder why…
My bangles were broken
And my bindi wiped…

I wonder why…
On my birth, my parents
Cursed their fate.

I wonder why…
Why am I alive
If all wait for me to die.

I wonder why…
I am not allowed
To play like a child.

I wonder why…
When I can speak
I have no voice.

I wonder why…
I was given in marriage
When I had not come of age.

I wonder why…
I have to wear white
And people want me out of sight.

I wonder why…
They call me a widow
And even hate my shadow.

I wonder why...
do I have to mourn and cry
for an unknown guy.


I wonder why…
am condemned
to pretend to live.. am dead



Written after reading an article in a leading Indian magazine, about the plight of child widows, in Desert state of Rajasthan. It’s a long dark tunnel for thousands of child
Widows. Govt. doesn't even have census figures

Mamta Agarwal
12.04.09

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Andrew mark Wilkinson 12 April 2009

Mamta, I remember you telling me about these child brides, but I thought they were things of the past now, this is really sad... Andrew 10

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Raj Nandy 13 April 2009

Plight of our child widows very well expressed in rhyme! -Raj Nandy

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Ritty Patnaik 09 August 2009

mamta, you have touched the sensitivity of the mind, writing about the child widow, who can only ask questions, like WHY? ? poem is nice, and i hope it reaches out to more people outside poem hunter.one does feel shattered and inadecuate, because the social system is such.

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Saadat Tahir 21 June 2009

mamta ji the pain and hurt i feel...is collosal the abject insensitivity of our offialdom to this and many such scourges is inexcusable you have written a beautiful social piece superb poetry......and with your permission i too will try my pen at a similar topic one of these days for these little lotuses drifting on uncharted waters there are no...cheers

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Sathyanarayana M V S 23 April 2009

Heart wrenching poem Mamtaji. Very powerful, punching! I wonder, there are still places these ancient practices are continued.

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Sathyanarayana M V S 23 April 2009

Heart wrenching poem Mamtaji. Very powerful, punching! I wonder, there are still places these ancient practices are continued.

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premji premji 17 April 2009

I wonder why… I have to wear white And people want me out of sight. mamtaji, very powerful lines...some times i wonder what could have happened to us if british people didn't rule us? thanks to rajaram mohan roy and william bendic...

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