Women Wordsmiths And Christmas By Sangeeta Sharma

Women Wordsmiths And Christmas By Sangeeta Sharma

A Reality-check!

No more is a woman-writer Doomed or an individual crazed No more has she to hide her art Through pseudonyms Or in other books

Mere poetry she no more produces But also essays, diaries and novels A sentence she breaks When she wants to Not because she has to attend To other errands As the second-sex.

Today multitudes of women are earning And they do have a room of their own. But do they have A share in maternal property? Yes! But only in the law-books Ground-reality differs.

A male-companion’s shoulder To rest her head at? Or a child in her arms To satisfy her mother-instinct? Not always as by the time Women become self-sufficient They have outgrown The marriageable age.

They now have props To satisfy Their libido They lack the desire To be an angel in the house

The ‘new’ woman Wants to earn, splurge and enjoy Adventure is not a word To classify men alone

Time is to rethink And reshuffle the binary oppositions By the end of the second decade of the 21st century!