THE FEMALE
BIRTH
In the instinct of no-creature-of-Nature
the birth of a female is considered undesirable.
Only humans consider it strange.
CHILDHOOD
Since she has been born,
let her stay in an obscure corner of her home
and learn to survive.
ADOLESCENCE
Keep your hair in a tight knot.
Don't let your eyes wander here and there.
Hide carefully your swelling breasts.
Women need to be kept in chains.
At best they can be allowed
to move about in the precincts of the home, that's all.
YOUTH
Men look for unviolated virgins
so that they can maul and tear them,
some on the plea of love,
some of marriage.
OLD AGE
The tight smooth skin is full of wrinkles.
The menstruation pain is gone forever.
The thread of the tale told again has snapped.
DEATH
We are well rid of nuisance.
In the instinct of no-creature-of-Nature
is the death of a female so desirable.
LIBERATION
"Heaven for women lies at the feet of their husband."
Women, they say, improperly care;
for husbands, shirk their duties daily.
But, lured by the promise of Paradise,
they lick dirt and dust off their husbands' feet.
Those were learnèd men who framed such promises.
The time has come to extinguish such myths,
to set afire such learnèd laws,
and right the wrongs
that pollute our earthly paradise.
THE UNRUNG RING
So many things ring,
the cells of the body,
the ankle bells as they dance,
the silver wrist bangles.
As the monsoon rains fall on the window
the glasspanes musically ring.
As clouds clash with clouds
lightning rings out.|
Dreams ring, keeping time to their beats,
and, making a havoc internally,
loneliness rings.
Only an intimate bell on my door does not ring.
CONDITION
I can't stay content with heart alone.
I want to squeeze you hard,
get to the core.
I must taste all of it.
Come, fully repay the debt
you owe my body.
LOOK
Steadily I look at beauty.
Who has the arrogance
to take his eyes away from me?
All the stones are melting away
before my look.
The seasoned swindler at his gambling table
is losing all his bets.
If the look hits the target,
who can withdraw his mind?
I look steadily at you.
All around there is only the look of a barren desert.
You are just a silly boy:
How can you escape surrendering to my eyes!
IN RETURN
You gave me poison.
What shall I give in return?
I'll give you my pitcher of love
down to its last drop.
DREAM MANSION
How do you look when you are in bed,
or go to sleep,
or wake after a dream?
How do you look when, arising from bed,
you go to the bathroom.
pour a glass of water from a jug
and drink it?
I have never seen you in a domestic scene
after you have shaved and bathed.
How do you look
as you sing under your breath.
when you take off your shirt,
when someone spreads
her forest of hair
on your broad chest
and overwhelms you with caresses?
when, awaking in the depth of some night
you drown yourself
in the wild love of a woman
like the stormy waves on a river?
I long so much to see, one day,
how a woman's body
trembles joyfully at your touch.
For once I want so much to be a woman through and through!
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