A little bit of everything

I’m a little bit of anger,

I’m a little bit of desire,

I’m a little bit of brain,

I’m neither here, not there

I live everywhere, everyone belongs to me

Don’t pin me down

as a ‘type’; I don’t belong

to you and I understand

you don’t belong to me

 

I want you to take

me as I am, I will

take you as you are –

we will have a beautiful

friendship – if we both

accept ourselves too




Text and Photo: Sanchita C 2014

A Woman in India

This fate was sealed

the moment I was born

Born in a cage I was

condemned to live there

My mind got trapped in a box

so it could not escape

Life’s choices were eliminated

when my gender was revealed

I hear there are lands and people

which offer freedom and opportunities

- words which ring a bell with remote

abstract connotation in my brain

For as if I live my life each day

in a translucent glass ball

I am unable to see the outside

world but they see me alright!