Goddess

Sometimes I take birth

sometimes I’m denied

unsure of my tomorrow

I accept God as my guide.

To survive and grow is a struggle

and all I am taught is silence

if I dare correcting people

I get a look ,so tense.

I bear violence, taunts

and hear you scold

keeping it all to myself

according to the situation I mould.

You visit the temple

so religiously you worship and pray

on the thrones sit the women deity too

can’t respect women ,from temples stay away .

But not all are the same

many love me

they raise me with love

those who don’t I pity.

I am a mother, daughter, sister and wife

treat me like a princess

just like Durga, Lakshmi and Sita

I am one and names many, a goddess.