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