Woman, I Am - Born To Tolerate? Poem by Umasree Raghunath

Dated: 10 October 2001

Hard to forget
Hard to tolerate
the old old memories
the present furies
tribulations are strong
calculations go wrong
Woman, I am
So should remain calm?
If someone cannot help
you to happiness,
Let them not make
Life a turbulence
Parents to be in laws
forget their own kin
why did i leave my child
and go back to work
Is is to support their loans?
no use in killing my days
dragging in buses
books and unending issues
why don't they understand
respecting me as a woman
why cant the in-laws
be my parents too?
working at the cost
of my child's childhood
at the cost of health
and losing my own peace
Is this another form of dowry
grabbing all my hard earned money
God will see to every selfish fish
Just leave the troubles at his feet