Wish to Be a Fish, A Poem by Rachana Sunar

Wish to Be a Fish 

A Poem by Rachana Sunar 

 

Oops!! How bummer life is to be a woman

In a so called Modern society

Where women are subject to be trading

From barn to brands

Fantasizing success and luxury

By riffing off Women’s cloths and flesh

Labeling with feminism, Pleasing and pledging men everywhere

 

 

Today’s Women are more vulnerable than 100 century back

Massive work load at office and home

Both demands time, effort and perfection

And to raise children

In a Montessori era, alpha generation

It’s enough to roast a woman’s body, mind and soul

 

Where everyone talks about Women’s education,

But no one can bare Women’s opinion

Where women are empowered,

To raise their voice loud,

But their mouths are shut down in their own home

 

Wait. Home!

Before marriage, it’s their parent’s home

After married their husband’s

In both homes, they serve and do

All chores and everything but of course,

They own nothing

 

Despite, she is the only one responsible

To keep family’s prestige and reputation

By faking off and showing up

Only good stories of both the families

 

 

If she talks back in husband’s family

She is blamed to let down her parent’s name and prestige,

If she talks against domestic violence,

Then she is framed for diminishing both families’ names and reputation

 

Oh I feel sophisticated to live as women

In this so called Modern Era

Just as a fish without water

 

How much I wish, I could be a fish

Unstable moves, ever resting

But still calm and quiet

Coping with the water’s wave

Still relaxed and peaceful

When it senses any sign of danger

Immediately it swims away

Without thinking

What other fish will think of it

 

 

Well!

Where a woman thinks

Thousand times, from past to the future

Still too late, To get out of the danger,

She waits for nothing but

Get emotional and mental damage

She freezes as paralyzed,

Can’t move on from the toxic cage

 

So in this sense,

I love to be a fish or a mermaid,

In my next form of life.

 

Bio of the poet: Rachana Sunar is a Human rights activist, ECD/Montessori trainer, writer, educator, nature lover and a mother.