Girl

She gives up her joy for others.

She is forced to find her happiness in others’.

She is asked to decide, but not given a choice.

She is considered by many, a liability, while the rest of the world covets her as an asset.

She is called incapable, unintelligent and always a burden on the shoulder.

Her smile is what everyone sees, and she is assumed to be a slaphappy.

But behind each of that smile lies a repository of responsibilities, a buried bunch of sadness that she unpacks and cries over every night.

Her sense of indebtedness to her parents, only she knows.

She gives, gives up, gives in and gives away.

She is always the one to forgive first, forget at once, knowing though there’s nothing that is actually for her.

Her family’s problem has always been her problem,

But hers have mostly gone unheard, unnoticed.

She is expected to befriend her in-laws who disdain her as an alien threat

And to get used to them quicker than she got used to her new academia.

Household chores are something she loves to do,

To cook for her family and get some appreciation for that is all that she expects.

To talk for her rights is breach of doctrine,

And to at least remain silent is her show of arrogance, well the world calls it so.

She knows what’s right, she foresees and mostly overlooks her likings.

Her heart is used only to beat, keep her alive and to cry, but she beats it down most of the times to make her intellect rule the show.

Her gender is synonymous to being accommodative, that’s how it has been rooted in everyone’s mind.

She lives every part of life for those around her, like the waning wax of a candle,

Despite this, all her worth is known only upon her death.

But thank you world, you only keep elevating her glory with every suppression that you cast at her.

You only increase her reverence with every deplorable act of yours.

Because she knows the magic of turning muddy dust into a golden one.

The naturally beautiful yet made up face hides all the worries,

 Her life isn’t a paradise, not even an oasis, but just a mirage.

She wipes away the pain along with her tears.

And every time she does that she is reborn like a phoenix.