The Mutinous Soul – Delhi Poetry Slam

The Mutinous Soul

By Pinky Priyadarshini Sarma

Call me a damsel
And I shall drag you to hell.

Call me a demon,
And you definitely know how it feels to be in the heaven.

Your definition of me is only a reflection of how you see.

But I germinate, evolve, grow, like a
Complex embryo-
Travelling the fallopian tube of myriad experiences you put me through.

I am not in a post partum period, pained and scarred.

Nor I am a vulnerable foetus, ready to be marred.

Try to mould, bend, twist or break me,

You will certainly watch me rise like the mystical phoenix
Blazing, roaring, smashing the stereotypical fix.

I am more than a woman, a womb and a creator of life.

I am more than a mother, daughter, sister and a wife.

I am neither a figment of your imagination,
nor a remnant of your procrastination.

Your lust may devour every single filament of my grueling body;
But my Soul shall drive me into a revolutionary mutiny.


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