Uncensored Desire Poem by PADMINI DUTTA SHARMA

©Uncensored desires

Her chiseled face gone awry & pale
Shocked and aghast
She went white like shell.

Draped in white she looked mystic
They chopped her curls
She was made almost bald
Her silky dark manes heaped on the floor
Everything onwards was supposed to go cold.

Those hands that danced and fed
Were brazen, manly and bold, naked
Those red nails now dilapidated and clueless
The rings were gone – from nose, ears & fingers
Just because some toothless idiot perished in hell!

Married before puberty
To a ripe old of seventy
Scared out of her wit on her wedding night
So innocent she did not even know
Her marital rights.

Such was the custom among some “civilized” tribes
Girls were married off before they thrived
Belonging to the “respectable” clan of landlords
They were supposed to be like inert wall clocks
Like procreation machines they were meant to lie
A pseudo society more than sly!

Widowhood is cruel and merciless
Women’s heart are slaughtered careless
A girl who even did not see her husband’s face
Is forced without any notice to erase
All desires, emotions and passions par se
Who made such flaw full laws?
And who gave them right to decide her fate
Term her natural emotions as immoral & fake?

Why do we expect her to be doomed for life?
Why every woman needs a character certificate?
Clandestine, blasphemous, bigamy are big words
But who cares?
What about her desires, her urge, her passions,
It’s her life, her body,
Why should they all go waste?
Who defines morality and immoral?
We, a bunch of hypocrites
We the elites are always in a self denial mode
Fake to the core; shallow & weird.

There was no love or emotion involved
No one cared if anything evolved
Why don’t men meet the same fate
When their wives depart before it’s too late?
Double standards and her damned fate!

Disarmed and aroused by a touch
She responded spontaneous
Guilt free and fully conscious
She realized the price she paid was too much
Her body basked in the joy of sensual
She did not try to refrain at all.

Courtesan eh the society might pronounce
Overseeing the dissipation & sordidness denounce
Normal desires are termed amoral
Truth is denied; pretensions abysmal
That unbridled desire & unmitigated urge
Is like natural flowing water
That quenches thirst & alleviates desire.

Padmini Dutta Sharma