Emptiness

Emptiness
There is an Emptiness
All around,
All around my life
There is a silence-
A silence of darkness,
A silence of lifeless fetus
In a mother’s womb.
Unknowingly,
If it would get a life
Or will be killed
In the womb.
I am scared mom,
Said the fetus,
Within this dark room
From where
I want to come out,
I know I am safe within you,
But mom, I don't know if
I could get a life
Or I would be thrown
Into garbage
It’s all depends on my fate
If I’m a baby girl or a boy.
Oh! Unkind world
I didn't want to come out
If my life is declared
To be or not
At the point of
Male or female.
Why innocence is killed daily
Why girls are getting
Assaulted day by day
Isn't there a place for me?
I want to live,
I want to see the world
As a place of hope
As  my motherland
And as a God's gift.  

©Lata tejeshwar'renuka'

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