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In this poignant poem, Rajashree addresses a dear daughter’s struggle against societal constraints and the desire for empowerment, exclusively for Different Truths.
Oh, my dear daughter! You are not born free, unlike others But everywhere, in chains of savage preliteracy, around you And you float in an ocean of fears Ready to sink unwillingly In a state of despair and melancholic blues. The clutches of hellhounds, Some are known and some are strangers Or some of those appear behind the masks to keep themselves unidentified, Spring at you now and then For a quick grapple. No doubt Society is blind to your skirmish mishaps Like the blindfolded statue of justice And a resultant desire for self-assassination Pullulates in you beyond belief. May the blinded eyes should be unwrapped And filter you from pains And to unfurl a new chapter in history Of empowerment of a girl child To ensure and ascertain, That no longer, you are in chains.
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