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I came across this beautiful poem and I wanted to share with everybody. It has touched my heart.
Woman Burning Bright
Centuries have come and centuries have gone,
Moment-to-moment I burn along…
Life is burning desert sand…
Pooja lamp, I burn so bright
Without a wick, with incandescent light…
In hell-fire-of-separation, I burn,
My beloved, unconcerned…
Bowl of poison, I drink without a hitch,
Like Meera*, my moon is eclipsed…
I have stood the "Test-of-Fire"
With Sita**, on burning pyre…
Like a candle melts my soul,
Moths a thousand, encircle close…
My womb's scorched again and again,
A mother, I love without a gain…
My forehead, Vermillion-dyed,
In bright–red flames, a "Burning-Bride…
Still, I burn on the "Funeral–Pyre",
As a "Sati, much to my ire…
As one born out of a litter,
I was sold to the highest bidder…
Quietly, in the womb done away
I never saw the light of the day…
"Wood burns to coal, coal to ashes,
I burn so, neither coal nor ashes…"***
Centuries have come, and centuries have gone,
Moment-to-moment, I burn along…
Humanity is a barren desert land….
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