Sometimes I take birth
sometimes I'm denied,
unsure of my future
I look at God as my guide.
Growing up is a task
yet all I am taught is silence,
if I dare speak out
I get a look, so tense.
I bear violence, taunts and
even when they scold,
keeping it all to myself
according to every situation I can mould.
You visit temples
religiously worship and pray,
on the thrones sit the women deity too
if you cannot respect women, from the
temples stay away.
I agree not everyone is alike,
many love me,
raise me with love
those who don't, I pity.
I can be a mother, daughter, sister, wife
and what not,
treat me like a human, raise me like a princess;
just like Durga, Lakshmi, Sita and all of them
I am one, with names many like a Goddess.