Shackes

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 SHACKLES

Shackles are shackles

By whatsoever name

These are known

May be known as teeka-rakhdhee

Or be named as mangla-sutra, bangles

Anklets or bichhia


But

Shackles impose 

Only bondage

Whether it be of iron

Or of gold.


My English Transversion of A Rajasthani Poem of Monica Gaur

*  Teeka, rakhadhee, mangla-sutra, Bicchia ornaments of ladies worn respectively on forehead, neck and feet.

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