Brown Penny

From A Daughter To A Father December 16, 2011

In the fast-paced modern world, even the families that claim to be up-to-date with their pearls; minor parochial thinking still persists, as if it was all a huge mist. Oblivious of the rules of life, or I should say the unfairities that we see yet fail to sight; holding her frock in surging tide, looking eagerly at the doll-house that sat by her side, a daughter pours her innocent jewels of feelings; asking her father, the reason for these ailings.
Unable to answer her daughter’s guileless questions, the little girl sees water filling his rims of emotion.
Did it only bring tears in his eyes, or did he actually realize?

I look at the world around
And see myself standing aback
Without even making a sound.
I look left! I look right!
Trying to find a place where I can hide.
No I’m not afraid! No I’m not scared!
But I feel small in front of the world
That calls me living in the backward air.

I see the world driving their way through
Cutting through the clouds of traffic
As if expertly sailing on the ocean blue.
I look down; my heart shrinks.
Each time I watch a person
Driving through the road with ear rings.

I feel deprived, I feel sad
That is one thing I will never forget.
Your words,
They still pour in my ear as hay
“I have done my duty. Now when you earn
You make your own way.”
It came as a shock, it came as a bump
For a heart that had always dreamed of driving
Through the wind without even a lump.
I feel deprived, I feel sad
That is one thing I will never forget.

You create a divide
Between male and female
And that, you cannot hide.
Each time I look around the world
And see myself; I wish I never was a girl
Or, I rather was hurled.
For once, would you look around
The people, the modern times,
The shrinking pennies
But the growing dimes?
For once would you look around the world
For me?
The communities have grown, the surroundings have changed
Even though we still live in the mud clay buildings that we named.
Try looking around for once
It might seem a place in a dire need,
Asking for your approval, begging for a chance.

You want us to flourish, I know
But, you need to open up your mind and let go.
There is no place for orthodox gestures,
If you want us to top all charts
That the world can ever fetch for us.
We will be good, we will make you proud
That, I promise.
Just try and understand us- ‘The today’s youth’
Please don’t let us diminish.

I want a day when
I look around the world
And I don’t feel deprived, I don’t feel small
But,
I am standing behind the podium
And referring to the world
As if it was all a mere song.