TINY GIRL : HINDI POEM BY PROMILA BHARDWAJ : HINDI POEM BY PROMILA BHARDWAJ : ENGLISH VERSION BY RAJNI CHHABRA

 TINY GIRL

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Sweet like doll

Tiny girl

Plays with handkerchief

In fun,

Draws sketch of life

Creates, discards, embellishes

For hours, folds

Handkerchief , with concentration

Unaware of 

Crowded ambience

And of her future

Moves handkerchief in air

Moving freely, with playful movements

Would cover her head with 

Like a scarf

Keeps it in pocket

Wipes sweat 

Makes a ball and bounces 

Cuddles it

Putting it in form of doll

Puts it on shoulder

Carrying like heavy burden

Walks bending

Pretends to wipe tears with it

Or acting of coughing

Uses it as pillow 

At times, as broom,

Unaware of all.

Is she doing rehearsal of roles

That she has to perform 

Till attaining old age.

This chit of girl is so capable

She is master of diverse forms of art

She is progenitor of all

Even then, treated as unwanted

Why is she despised?

Treated as inauspicious

Why is she killed 

Even before birth?

Doll like sweet,

Tiny baby, unborn girl.

If you have to kill

Kill your sick mentality

Blemished mental attitude

Clumsy malpractices

Conservatism

Such considerations

And reasons of such considerations

Don't kill that doll like

 Sweet tiny girl

Neither before birth

Nor after birth

Or else, 

Human -race will extinguish

Without this sweet tiny girl.