Apr 2023
On a busy day,
A floor unkept.
“What’s this woman doing?”
Said Mr. Baker Brett.
With no delay came she,
Hair running below her knees,
Cleant the place
And served him his morning tea.
The innocent kid
Stood in the aisle
With a face devoid of smiles
And fiery eyes.
The struggles of this woman,
He dare not say!
He made a fist.
When the clock struck eight,
He picked up his satchel
And looked at his sister play.
She received no formal education
And was to stay that way.
The struggles that she may face,
He dare not say!
He held his anger in,
And walked away.
Time will pass and
His beard will go grey.
To his curious daughter,
What will he say?
That she ought not
To get educated?
To be slave to an unknown man?
He contemplated.
Wild wild, rage. He must
Burst out today.
He shook off the bad dream
And so will they.
A floor unkept.
“What’s this woman doing?”
Said Mr. Baker Brett.
With no delay came she,
Hair running below her knees,
Cleant the place
And served him his morning tea.
The innocent kid
Stood in the aisle
With a face devoid of smiles
And fiery eyes.
The struggles of this woman,
He dare not say!
He made a fist.
When the clock struck eight,
He picked up his satchel
And looked at his sister play.
She received no formal education
And was to stay that way.
The struggles that she may face,
He dare not say!
He held his anger in,
And walked away.
Time will pass and
His beard will go grey.
To his curious daughter,
What will he say?
That she ought not
To get educated?
To be slave to an unknown man?
He contemplated.
Wild wild, rage. He must
Burst out today.
He shook off the bad dream
And so will they.
This poem is set in the long nineteenth century. An innocent boy, born in a male-chauvinistic society, feels the inequality around him. A child’s empathy towards women is dumbed by society when he turns into a man. The child in the poem wishes to change this scenario. He has high hopes that he will initiate change in the society and that the society will change.
