Silence Kills

“Marriage is a Rescue”, they point to every girl hitting just puberty,

Thus brings proposals when she is seventeen, nevertheless, she is masterly

Of the demands, they hunt for knotting the knots.

An honorable nod of the toy-head responded her pre-husband to– Rescue Kohinoor

By law and acceptance. She murmurs, “I am the elder one, I am born to be rescued. I am not

To choose among Hims but to be rescued. To be rescued.”

No golden bangles, no jewelry but only a saree from a three-hundred salary

Changed the marital status from unmarried to a housewife of the Noor family.

Noor and Kohinoor could not be the part of each other

Just as their names did, her flaws and no flaws

Failed to accomplish Andrea del Sarto in the husband,

“My Sarto lacks knowledge of treating women and his arrogance

Completely dis-loved me,

I am to conceive Tuhin before Marjia so I can be the white moon hovering in his lap-

As soon as I am fertile, I will be loved.”

“Five autumns and only a girl and tummy satisfied and no boy?” Noor’s family raged at her.

She is being abused, every other day,

With flaws and no flaws.

With courtesy, she looked

On the ground and her eyes rained.

Fancy in her left, rigidity arrived, she knew the consequences.

From cocoon to a butterfly, she learned adaptations for now she has three more daughters

And lately, a son, a son to be taught as a gentleman; praising them Ladies.

And daughters to be taught to question every question,

Because silence kills.

She knew.