Putting forth two of my favorite works about being woman, today on Women’s Day. This is the first, and the other is out on the next post! Do read both, they complement each other, in the sense that, one could be called ‘a specific fact’ and the other ‘the larger truth’.

Let Me, Please.

I’m killed before I am born

I’m silenced before I can storm

I’m married off before the norm

Why, I say, why?

Only because I was born a girl?

Please, please. Don’t do this.

I beg you. Don’t do this.

Stop yourself from adding to your sins.

Let me exist, see the world

Let me learn, study my fill

Let me dress, wear what I please

Let me fight, win my battles

Let me attack, conquer my monsters

Let me stay here

Let me love myself

Let me rule my life

Let me flaunt my curves

Let me use my brains

Let me try and fail

Let me give my heart

Let me witness it break

Let me be a mother

Let me cherish my kid

Let me get weak and old

Let me have people who care for my soul

Let me live long enough

So one day I can proudly say

“I lived life fully, freely and fiercely.

Exactly the way I wanted mine to be.”

~ r.a.w