A SAFE SOUL?

A SAFE SOUL???
BY:PIA BAKSHI


Unaware of her future
In her mother's womb
Lies safely a little soul


a soul so pure
a soul so unsure
Her paternal would not accept her
when she will be born
The thought would scare her mother
from night till morn
Inside the soul would face
Anticipations for a new phase
While the mother knits a sweater
waiting for her daughter
to make her life better
The father spurns her back to reality
which for a girl is all cruelity
Soon the dream has no meaning
nor does the sweater she was weaving
Bound in the shackles of society preesure
the mother decides to kill her treasure
to kill a soul ,that never saw her
to kill a soul,that pined for a touch of her mother
to kill a soul that meant no harm
to kill it without any alarm
a girl soon will die of this perception
a girl soon will be a victim of oppression
The mother is suppressed
utterly depressed
Soon will come tha day
when she will go the extra way
To see the world
would be the soul's desire
Not to feel first the funeral pyre
The day knocked at her door
when she could avoid it no more
Unwillingly supporting this suppression
she went ahead and got abortion


Unaware of her future
once,,,,,, in her mother's womb
laid "unsafe" a little soul