Eve-teasing

By Monissha Anshay Sardana

The girl maintained her stiff appearance defiantly.
Bearing the discomfitting stares. 
She tried to look elsewhere in space. 
For to meet their eyes, she could not dare.

Wished she longingly to stare back at them, 
And thus, make them relent.
But she knew,
She would then be a fool to do this or even to intend.

The crowd before her was that of crude men who derived pleasure,
in embarrassing women. 
How they achieved it, 
was not their consideration.  
By hook or by crook, 
To do thus was their strong determination. 
For this, they searched for the slightest motivation.

Getting this, they pursued it immediately.
Giving no time to the innocent victim for her defence.
Helpless, she is thus left amidst strangers. 
If meek, she becomes susceptible to irreversible, inevitable danger.

Females today need tremendous courage. 
Be it physically or mentally. 
To start on a warpath against the men’s monopoly,
over the existing ways of the world.

For only then, the men of crude mentality, 
be brought down from their imagined high pedestal, 
to the lower level of the Earth. 
And its progressive reality,
where men and women share a justified Equality.