A Portrait Of Women

By Mahalakshmi Krishnakumar

Women are the soul of the society

They keep it beating and glowing too.

The world grows larger no wonder

But you are the creator not to ponder.

Harassment and criticism cow down to you

When a great man you give unto the world.

You are the most beautiful picture

In the gallery of God—who keeps

You, always closer to His heart.

He assigns half His job

And trusts you better, not the floundering man

You ascertain the reverence due,

And make every human revere you, true.

In mother or Goddess or any dear one,

The more you are subdued—The stronger

You grow, and look down upon

The dominant society.

It is in this world woman takes a role

To fight her cause to find her way

She reaches the top and yonder

How she does it is her encounter

Look for yourself the challenge of women

Catapulted on the forefront of the world.

By Mahalakshmi Krishnakumar