DENIAL
Fascinating
entertainment exists,
Ceremonies
ancient is a tradition,
Generations,
forefather pilgrimage,
Having
a dip in rivers felt sacred,
Offers
drops of water, hands lifted,
Cupped
in palms in front of the sun,
Waist
deep river water, pray heaven,
Where
ever spirits stay satiate thirst,
Offered
cooked rice on river sand,
Trust
morsels of food meet hunger,
Lived
through times and auspicious,
Immersion
of ashes in river water,
Consider
pious mind for salvation,
Life
never will take rebirth in peace,
A
permanent place to be in heaven,
Post-cremation
rights sons obeyed,
Completed
the duty for the late father,
Brothers
accompany for rituals,
The
eldest son's right is accomplished,
Immersion
of father's piece of bone,
Complete
with chanting and praying,
Cooked
rice, offered on leaves,
Bathed
on the holy river, returned,
Missing
the sisters denied,
Once
married, adopt an in-law family,
Not
authorized to ignite the pyre,
Rights
son performs for the parent,
The
daughter is denied to perform,
Participates
as invitee custom,
The
denial is the root flourished,
Family
treats for an inheritance,
Parent's
assets shared by sons,
Early
childhood brother sister,
Play
together, fail to imagine a wall,
Grow
children, a mother prays,
Entire
attention son hijacks,
Prayer,
fasting, holy fire ceremony,
Completed
desperately inspiringly,
For
long life, a good family, children,
Parents
dream of grandchildren,
Son's
education cost is noticeable,
A
girl child growing grows concerned,
Nothing
for education career status,
A
family gets alarmed daughter bright,
Highly
educated, job remunerative,
Established
independent helps home,
Happy
parents outward, worried,
Marriage
is the factor that churns the heart,
Fails
to get an established family,
Marriage
gifts daydream for a parent,
Love
marriage by daughter is tainted,
Society
ostracizes the family outcast,
No
difficulty for inter-caste marriage,
If
a son is getting married, parents allow,
Relation
grudgingly keeps silent attend,
A
daughter as if a burden from birth,
Parents
seek early marriage bargains,
Gifts
during marriage continue after,
Relaxed
family daughters are married,
Mother's
heart gets lighter, speaks less,
Fact
or fiction denial rock etched,
Bride-burning
tortures hunted past,
Dowry
the curse of Hindu society,
How
many young women suffered,
Parents
beg for mercy, save a daughter,
Evil
practices are crime, prejudices exist,
A
daughter becomes a daughter-in-law
A
daughter, why leads a life of denial?
The
denial, educated life feels ashamed.
@
Bijayananda Mishra
