by Shreya Ramachandran
[box]What makes women unique? Here’s a poem by Shreya Ramachandran.[/box]We clean up messes to make things better
write many a love-drenched or hateful letter.
We smile when we want to curl up and sob,
wear painful footwear that makes our toes throb.
we hide our dreams inside cynical shells,
live through men’s pretenses and hells.
We walk straight and move on with pace
though we want to slap someone’s sorry face.
We can raid ice-cream stores if we so set our mind
or swallow down every bar of chocolate we find.
For women globe over know one thing for sure –
Guilty-pleasure food is unbeaten in its lure.
We decide one thing, but want another
we essay the role of daughter and mother.
We play games that we really should have outgrown
and sometimes choose the silence of being alone.
We are at times quite misunderstood
and do not act as reasonably as we should.
Yet we are not sorry, and we would not change at all
we stick by our actions, and justify them with gall.
We have strange habits, tendencies and quirks
no one can change us – no tactic really works.
Yet, given good reason, we are loyal and true
accept us in our strangeness, and we’ll always love you.
Pic : bharath kishore – http://www.flickr.com/photos/bharathkishore/
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