From a few months,Inside a woman's womb dwelled a little life.Lying there with tiny handsAnd her little feet,She had just begun to breatheWith little lips she smiled,She was looking forward to live a life.As she lay there looking at the outside world so bright,She had decided many things: in her tiny little mind...Inside whom she lay todayShe'll call that woman her 'mother'From inside she could see her dadAlso, she was to have an elder brother.Who would sometimes tease her away?She'll climb her father's shouldersShe'll play with her grandfather all dayShe'll play with dolls, her toysAnd fiddle with daddy's keysShe'll go to sleepListening to her granny's lullabies.She'll bring with her lot of joys n happinessAnd would be showered with lot of loveShe'll be treated like a princessAnd like a little angel sent from above.... Suddenly something happenedHer little dreams were all shattered.What did she just hear?That her heart was filled with fear?All her imaginationsWere torn apartHow could a mother be so cruel?How could a father take a decision so harsh?Her existence wasn't considered necessaryFor being a part of the beautiful world…Perhaps all this was only,Because she was to be a girl…She started shouting and started yellingShe wanted to live-is what she was tellingBut nobody heard anybody caredThe silent screams of this unborn childWere so easily mutedBy the surgeon's knife.When even God had willed it...Why was the 'girl' denied of living a life?
Thoughts by Ranju BhatiaWritten by Purva BhatiaPurva BhatiaAcharya Narendra Dev College, DUpurva_zephyr@yahoo.co.in