Ode to woman*
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“No woman, no human society in this world”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“Without your mesmerizing smile
Without your angelic eyes
Without your heavenly touch
Without your sweet voice
The earth is a plain pit of sizzling embers
And
Thorny labyrinth of Hell”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“A husband is incomplete without a wife”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“A brother is an orphan
if there’s no palpating of a sister’s feet
on the floor and the chit-chatting of her mellifluous voice”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“A father and a mother’s joy
increases a thousandth fold
at the presence of a daughter
however poor they may be”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“Why a Home is Called a Sweet Home”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“You are the Maker of Man”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“The world is indebted to you forever”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“You are the first educator of a child
who is the future of the country”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“You can make and unmake destiny – prosperity – of the land in which you are born”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“Your responsibility and duty
are immense in awakening the young
and kindling into their heart
the fire of patriotism”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
or
have you forgotten
“‘Nescire et Malus et Turpe Ducimus’ -
Ignorance is poor counsel and leads us to doom -Better arm your offspring”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“You detain the mantra of world peace”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“The world is awaiting your trumpet sound
to stop evil idealistic warfare
and violence of all hues
in either Northern, Southern, Eastern
and Western Hemispheres”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“Mother Nature adores you in spite of all blabbering malignant tongues against you”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“no gift is big enough
to reward your benevolence to mankind”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
you are “The Lyrical Muse of Poetry”
and “The Supreme Goddess of poetry
of all denominations’’?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“Your milk is God’s nectar to the child”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“You can inspire “combativity”
which is the law of the Universe
into the little bud you give birth to
to continue the combat of life
in lieu of laziness”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“you herald procreation
in the name of the Universal Spirit”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“You are afraid of being afraid”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“You can implant the semen of adventure
into the weak in domain undreamt of so far”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“You should not live under the delusion
that you are not the “Mascot”
of embittered prophets
or
“Mascot” of prophets
in the kaleidoscopic rainbow
upon the blue canvas of the welkin
since the inception of time and space”?
Oh dear! Dear! Dear woman!
Who says you are weak?
Don’t you know
“You should be
‘YOU’
and
you should play
‘YOU’
upon the stage of life”?
From Petals of Trochetia – a book of poems – by Bawansing Sunkur (Author of The Spices of Life, L’île Maurice Pays de Loups-Garous and Urvashi in Hindi)
AUTHOR:
Elected Councillor, Ward 3, City of Port-Louis, Mauritius, in 1977
Chairman (pi) finance Commission, City of Port-Louis, in the 1990s
Founder of Mauritius Young Labour League in the 1990s
Adviser of the Congress for Writers and Composers – Creative Arts – held at Teacher Training College and M.G.I in the 1990s
Honorary Chairman of l`Association Force de la Victoire in the 2000s
Union Freedom Association award of Merit 17 February 2009:
Shri Sunkur Bawansing, Author, Founder Youth Wing, Labour Party
Merit: Selfless Dedication to National Interests
