DREAMS LEFT BEHIND

Whose dreams are those outside your door?
Some young, some old, some covered in gold.
Do you leave them behind before you walk in?
Is it still a house if you can't walk in whole?

Don't you hear the sound of time passing by?
Who do you please with this silence of yours?
Life is a river, it breaks what blocks its flow.
Don't you wish to meet the sea anymore?

Good girls aren't loud, I have heard them say.
You don't question, are you afraid to be bad too?
If you have to leave yourself to belong to them,
What makes this the right place for you?

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We don't need more female heroes to recognise the ones inside us.

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I have been living my life as an unexpected traveller.

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मोहताज़

मैं करछी कि शमशीर बना लड़ती रहूँ
वो मुझे महज़ मोहताज़ कहते हैं

(full poem in captions)

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I have seen them caged within the hands of their physically stronger counterparts,
within the amount of dowry their in laws ask for,
I have seen them caged within the red light areas,
under the veil that cover their bras and breasts,
or the garb they wear to medical shops and embarrassingly ask for sanitary pads.

(Full poem in caption)

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She fights for her rights.
Yes, she works late at night.

She goes to a bar.
Yes, she perfectly drives her car.

She parties hard, and at times she goes wild.
Yes, but that doesn't makes her a spoiled child.

And yes,

She'll bruise your chauvinist ego, its no big deal.
Yes, she's a girl but she's a girl with nerves of steel.

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Log kehte hai ..
Mai paagal hu
Kyuki Mai bewajah muskuraati hu..

Log kehte hai
Mai bewakuf hu
Kyuki Mai anjaan logo ki madat karti hu..

Log kehte hai
Mai pathar hu..
Kyuki Mai dikhaawa nahi karti hu..

Log kehte hai
Mai anaadi hu..
Kyuki Mai har insaan mein kisi apne ki parchai dhundti hu..

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• Periods •

As long as they
will consider periods
a sin , she won't let any
man worship her pussy .

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