For She Is …..

 I cook the food you eat

I even wash your dirty feet

I take out the clothes you wear

I console you when you have a nightmare

For I am a mother

I keep the house for you

I never take more than my due

I let you fantasize at night

I never complain about my mother-in-law’s fight

For I am a wife

I sacrificed my career too

I never asked you “the female caller’s who”

I even maintained those plastic smiles quietly

I never minded just being called “Mrs so-and-so” lightly

For I am a woman

But is that all that I am – a piece of flesh

A slave at home and a machine in bed

No dreams or feelings real that I can relish

Just live out the hours till I drop dead

I am human too and exercise a vote

I cannot be satiated with a green note

I will not be just a mother or a wife

I need too to live my way this life

I will never from my duties run

I will not your social beliefs shun

I just ask you to give me my due

For a woman in this world may trust only so few

Give me my freedom – I give you my trust

Give me my space – to live I must

Give me respect and take my dreams too

My love is unconditional and not a ruse

I am woman – the giver of life

 ~Vikram C~

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