If I am a girl child I will be recognized soon
and will be killed in womb,
If I survived I will be born to grow
as a second grade life in comparison to boys in home,
If I grow well I will be treated in society as doll,
having no feelings for her but to prove herself in conditions all,
In my youth I will be married to a man of my parents choice
by giving dowry to in laws
I had to live as a good wife in my married life,
If I am a home maker I had to give birth and make a family
and embrace hardship of being mother in life
killing her own feelings in fumes.
when I will become old I will be treated,
as burden by my own children and will die in distress and found that I had done nothing for my own,
and had treated myself as a girl child killed in womb.
hemu gupta
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/being-a-girl-child-in-india/
