RUDDERLESS
She was
a most beautiful woman,
Her
studies, she was a scholar,
Such
attractive she charmed all,
Matching
her personality, polite,
Decency,
her invitation, radiate,
Mediocre
family life, ambitious,
Her
focus was clear, framed, firm,
Allured
social status serving, needy,
Emphasized
her career as a teacher,
To
educate downtrodden children,
Deprived
from school, illiterate,
She
wanted children to be educated,
Particular
girl child her attention,
She was
traveling through villages,
Rustic
lives, so alluring, vibrant,
Simple
folk knows no manipulation,
Innocent
speaking truth shy,
To her
rural children, a symbol of God,
Sparkle
their eyes and hair auburn,
Dirty
torn frocks girls are so alluring,
She
taught them cleanness, hygiene,
Children
crowded around her, hug,
Their
love, attention, undiluted,
Villagers
respect her as a Goddess,
She
passed a decade after university,
Simple
was her life single, funded,
She was
the news electric innovative,
Arranged
trainers, skill-based,
Village
women learned languages,
Write
read capability she passed on,
Her
constant effort, women learned,
Village
industry females mastered,
Magnet,
but among rural folks,
Worship
protects her in the village,
Offer
food, clothes, a variety of fruits,
Gratitude
lace with eyes admired,
The
story ended, and suddenly,
She was
forced to marry, intimated,
The
family got the bridegroom educated,
Working
as an overseas technocrat,
Her
initial protest father fainted,
Mother
was fasting, falling sick,
Reluctantly
surrendered, she agreed,
Her
second chapter abroad,
Husband
drinks party life scarred,
She was
beaten, humiliated, hurt,
The
treatment grew hasher beastly,
Her
hubby got angry, to protests,
She
visits with female friends,
Her
life now alone in her home,
Unable
to challenge alien land,
Unknown
people she never dared,
Failed
to disclose her agonies,
Rudderless
was her life ill-fated,
Failed
to oppose or change him,
She was
just a female idol brutalized,
Watched
one day a leaf on a stream,
After
the rain, it was floating aimless,
Lifted
the leaf found dried resemble,
Her
ambitions, love, and service evaporated,
She
packed her bag, money saved,
She took
a flight to her country and waved,
Dried
leaf on water or life rudderless,
Vanished
gradually, impressed villagers,
Pen:
Bijayananda Mishra
Title
of Poem: Rudderless
Themes:
Life rudderless like a leaf in the stream
Written:
8th October 2023, Cuttack
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