Every Woman Should Have A Home
A woman has no home and no surname, yet she strives her best to make a home out of the place she is married into and attach the surname of the family she enters in relationship with. Amid all this, there are times when she still feels the urge to have a home of her own. This poem is about a mother telling her daughter about the way society treats a married woman and why she will need a home for herself. Remembering what her mother told her, She decided to defy the rule. Remembering what her mother taught her, She struggled to hold her plight. Remembering what her mother lessoned her, She decided to convey to her daughter turning fifteen. "You will have to go to the man, Who takes you as his bride, You should know dear child, The home where you grow is never yours, The house where you will be taken in palanquin, You can exit from there only on bier. The words of my mother became bitter truth, "Remember my child, woman have no home to call her own." In this lifetime of min...
