No, I Don't Have A Want. Poem by Bharati Nayak
No, I Don't Have A Want.
Is it so easy
To wear a smile
Hiding your tears inside?
But do I ever has a sorrow?
Do I have any want unfulfilled?
Sarees, bangles, powder or cream
I have them in plenty.
But my sorrow is that
Nobody ever understand
That I have a want.
Mother says
Is there anybody
who has no pains ?
You have handsome husband
And lovely children
Then why should you complain?
Look around and see
How beautiful girls die
Whentheir fathers fail to give dowry .
See,
how women suffer silently
and hail their in-laws.
Yes,
What mother says Is right.
Wrong is my complaint.
Is there a life without hurdles?
But I feel a void
When I fail to say
If I ever has a complaint.
The life of a woman in this present society is much painful although she has plenty of wealth like Sarees, bangles, powder or cream along with handsome husband and lovely children. Nobody ever understand her grief. Many of women are subjected to death in failure of dowry. A brilliant poem on lives of women has been astutely and incisively delineated by you dear Bharati madam, full vote.
Thank you Sir, Kumarmani Mahakul for your valuable opinion.Yes, as you said, life of women in our society is painful as their individuality is rarely recognized.Their wish or opinion are never counted.Their contribution to the family as a homemaker is not counted.They exist as subservient to male members.Society.I am talking of women in general.
If I had the power, I would change the plight of women where a dowry determines future of the feminine gender, I have complaint here also as with all injustice, you are brave poetess to pen this poem, you have mu trope that my friend!
True. When there is something to say, it is said to someone very close, who answers, don't complain. What you are doing actually, that is saying, or sharing emotions, not really a complaint. That is what I understand by the life in my home. Nicely said.
Why complain? ! ! ! ! ! When you have everything; While others live with Nothing. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
Is there a life without hurdles? But I feel a void When I fail to say If I ever has a complaint.. Everybody has such dilemma, a void in our satisfaction or content. It may be the totality of our personal sadness, perhaps without any reasonable base
Our society has set norms on what happiness is, what is good life, what is not. But wants and wishes and desires are very personal, and still we all have to learn to wear a smile hiding our pain
hey, bharati. i relate to this one. your mother represents wisdom, and you, and i, embrace it and try to apply it. but still the want lingers. but wisdom reigns. will the wanting, will the less-than-perfect (as we imagine it) ever cease to exist? and then there's the encompassing present for us to live in and deal with. why not just embrace it and find its beauty? -glen
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Nicely written! Troubled lives are all around us
Thank you Kostas Lagos for reading and appreciating my poem.This poem I wrote many years back in my native language 'Odia'.Today I found its English translation scribbled on a torn paper and tought to post it here.