straight from a daughter's heart
Some warm homes resonate with laughter Warmed by a mothers care And awakened by peals of a daughters laughter Some homes remain dry In anticipation of a son Ignoring a daughter and her worth They spend their years waiting Talking, planning and hoarding sympathies Looking yonder while ignoring the treasure on lap The mother too weighed down by tradition, Expectation and her own worth at stake Mulls away her time waiting for the hour to arrive, When a male child would adorn her crown And make her life worthwhile Is it you or me or all of them Who have made this thorny way Ignoring the steely determination of so many mothers So many wives and so many sisters Who provide for their children, their husband and their brother So many daughters flocking to their parents in old age Providing for them, loving them and being with them Every day you are eve teased, Sometimes raped, sometimes murdered Put in a bag or pushed from a train Hungry eyes tear you apart Lonely nights lurking in pain but st...