STOP HARASSMENT!
Poem composed by Monalisa Parida
Uncle let me go home
I have my schoolwork to do
I have to play with dolls
My mother might be searching
My father may be worrying
My friends waiting at the door
My teachers may query about me
If I am missed my parents cry
Please, give me a way to go.
Don’t try to eat my flesh,
Don’t wish you to drink my blood,
Don’t tear my body,
Don’t hurt my soul badly.
I am not a toy
I am a human being
I am a girl
I have my own self-respect
I won’t let you destroy it.
Yes,
I am quiet
That doesn’t mean I am vulnerable
I can’t tolerate it.
I will raise my voice,
Against your harassment.
O my God protect me,
O humanity kindly save me,
O my luck just favor me,
I want to live and live long.
“Live and Let me live “!
Bio of the poet :- Monalisa Parida is a post graduate student of English literature from India, Odisha and a prolific poetess. She is very active in social media platforms and her poems have also been translated into different languages and publish in various e-journals.
She has got 80 international award for writing poetry. Her poems have been publishing international e-journals “New York parrot”, “The Writers Club” (USA), “Suriyadoya literary foundation”, “kabita Minar”, “Indian Periodical” (India) and “Offline Thinker “, “The Gorkha Times “ ( Nepal), “The Light House”(Portugal), “Bharatvision”(Romania), “International cultural forum for humanity and creativity”(Aleppo, Syria), “Atunispoetry.com”(Singapore) etc. And also published in various newspapers like “The Punjabi Writer Weekly(USA)”, “News Kashmir (J&K, India)”, Republic of Sungurlu (Turkey)” etc.
One of Monalisa’s poem was published in an American anthology named “The Literary Parrot Series-1 and series-2 respectively (New York, USA)”. Her poems have been translated in various languages like Hindi, Bengali, Turkish, Persian, Romanian etc. And she is the author of the book “Search For Serenity”, “My Favourite Grammar”, “Paradigm”.