Here's an ode to all Soumi's unsung Sitas!! Enjoy!!! Mita.
Broken Rules
I write words
I barely comprehend, in
tenets you do not grasp.
Yet I continue to write
for you.
For one day you might
learn to read me
(though you might not
wish to read me now).
Privileged "what"?
Privileged that
I escaped my sisters' fate?
(limitless confinement,
endless drudgery)?
Privileged that
I dare to dream?
(seek refuge in broken rules)?
I'm painfully aware
even literacy is a privilege.
So, I compose alien words
(pretend, defend, survive).
My fate is perhaps sealed
in the lines of my palm
but I refuse to believe.
(deny, defy, survive).
I will trip and falter
over the alien words
you refuse to read, but
I will make you understand
(I will wait until)
In abandoned history, in posterity
(you will acquiesce)
and together we shall rise
empowered in our morrow.
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written by Mita, 2008-05-04 21:59:06
Thanks Partha, Dwai, Soumi for your encouraging words and appreciation!!!
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written by Soumi Basu, 2008-05-04 09:51:05
Dear Mita,
Lovely poem...so much of his-story needs to be re-written to accomodate the stories of our mothers and sisters. Let's hope that some day soon we learn to read between the lines and re-create/deciper the 'alien words' from our mothers' worlds. Then we would celebrate literacy!
Lovely poem...so much of his-story needs to be re-written to accomodate the stories of our mothers and sisters. Let's hope that some day soon we learn to read between the lines and re-create/deciper the 'alien words' from our mothers' worlds. Then we would celebrate literacy!
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written by dwai, 2008-05-04 07:06:07
Dear Mita,
Great poem -- a fine continuation to Soumi's Sita article.
Best
Dwai
Great poem -- a fine continuation to Soumi's Sita article.
Best
Dwai
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written by P. Desikan, 2008-05-03 11:54:26
You did not make the rules
which you say you break.
The rules you made for yourself
will not break you,
because they are you!
They would of course include
some that others made before you,
though not all of them;
People who care,
make rules that endure and nourish.
Other makers of rules
will be forgotten
sooner than their rules.
You care for your sister
whom you touch with your caring,
even when you think
that she is totally out of reach!
The rules you have made for yourself
will soon become her rules
and make her too, privileged.
Regards. Partha.
which you say you break.
The rules you made for yourself
will not break you,
because they are you!
They would of course include
some that others made before you,
though not all of them;
People who care,
make rules that endure and nourish.
Other makers of rules
will be forgotten
sooner than their rules.
You care for your sister
whom you touch with your caring,
even when you think
that she is totally out of reach!
The rules you have made for yourself
will soon become her rules
and make her too, privileged.
Regards. Partha.
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Page 137, Time Magazine (the special Time 100 issue) dated May 12, 2008.
Lilly Ledbetter has not given up her fight yet.
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Regards. Partha.