A Ballad Unheard (Part II)

I have grown a lot as a soul,

I have transformed as a whole…

About distant lands, I keep myself well-informed,

Even about Earth; the place with evil, that has been stormed…

I had been sitting alone in the garden of clouds, pondering since quite a while,

When a fairy came to me and whispered, “God is away by just a mile…”

It had been ages since my last meeting with God

And he had sent me to a land, far abroad

Every poignant memory rose back like turns in a thread

Every wound turned raw, seemed as if it had just been cut open and freshly bled…

I had sailed in the sea of my thoughts

Thinking about what my destiny, to me, had taught…

A swift cool breeze broke my trance;

And I decided to take another chance…

God was just passing by,

When I gathered the courage to ask if I,

Could go back to planet Earth,

And as a girl, again take birth…?

But before I could utter a word

He said, “Yes! Why not?” and moved on, quite unperturbed...

Now, I am again inside my mother

And, gratefully, she loves me like no other..

She sings to me, lullabies

And as I grow; out of happiness, she cries…

I love her a lot and she loves me even more

From the brim of her heart, to very deep, inside the core…

I am, now, four months old

And the doctor, to my mother has told,

You have a very healthy baby girl

But why does mom’s face twist and twirl??

She was sad on the way back

And my instinct told me that things were about to go off-track…

When mom told dad about me being a girl child,

His reaction was awfully cold and wild…

He cursed and yelled and shouted and screamed,

He was not the same person, who held a place in mom’s heart, so esteemed..

He wanted mom to get me aborted

And I was taken aback because my darling mom never retorted…

She kept crying those silent, painful tears..

While my dad shouted for, what it seemed like, years..

He said boys are an asset, while girls are a liabilty

And my mother found this fact quite worthy of credibility…

After my so-called father had completed his speech,

My Grandma came along, with another sermon, to preach…

She was of the opinion that I was a big mistake,

And it was mom’s fault, and an excuse, she would not take..

I wanted to enlighten this woman and exclaim at once,

This lady, so illiterate, but a degree-holder, by chance..

I was dying to howl and tell her that it was only the male gamete that mattered,

But I was just a foetus, and my mom’s frail heart had already been shattered…

And finally, my helpless mother agreed,

To abort me, to satiate her in-laws’ greed,

I was murdered again and my body lay for days, in a garbage bin,

But that’s no problem; ‘cause afterall, I was nothing more than a horrendous sin….

I was back again, to the safest abode,

After another terrifying murder episode……..