She waits for a storm

She waits for a storm

A storm which will bring down 

the edifices of patriarchy

and reduce them to dust.

Storm of warm winds, healing

and demanding an answer

for the wounds and the taunts

for the memories that haunts'

for the pain inflicted

physically and psychologically.

segregation and discrimination she faced

for being different biologically.
equality will prevail, female or male

As her eyes full of hope , from her home

She patiently waits for a storm

A storm that will empower her

and will blazen her fight.

As hot and vicious as the fire

which burnt her neighbour outside.

Era of dominance, it wont last when

Rape and dowry will become a thing of the past.

Slowiy and graduallly,her patience begins to wane

as the flag bearer of empowerment

began to falter from their promises.

She loses all her hope from the feminism

a movement,gravely suffers from elitism.

The cycle of same old renditions started long ago

and the world is the stage, but it has nothing new to show

she turns her head away from the window
from where she had waited.

She is frail but her will never died

Many forces she counters, as she concieves a girl child.

leaves her house, the society and the bondage

and feels free, like a lioness in the wild.

A path not easy, to make her ends meet

but she never stumbled walking on her frail legs.

she raises her child.

As her daughter starts to grow up,  now she walks to her school

with a heavy bag ,full of books.

Her mother realises that the seeds, ready to stir,

the world with a revolution, were always within her.

Now she watches her daughter silently

reading her textbook, sees the moment, that wont be long

she had been confident but never as sure of it before

and she waits for a storm..

Education is the key towards empowerment. originally written for poets united