OWN PATH

 OWN PATH

With own cycles

Carrying school bags on their back

Are moving girls

 

On roads 

Leading from home 

To schools and colleges

The girls abound on roads

 

The bag is heavy

But not so heavy 

That it seems burden to them

Only we are burden for them

We never wish that

Girls cross threshold of their homes

And move on path of progress

 

Not only whimsical eyes

We also chain them with traditions

 

But, the feet

That have learnt to move forward.

Whatsoever, hurdle might face

Won't stop its pace.

 

 

 A poem of late Sanwar Daiya ji translated by me into english

Rajni Chhabra