For The Girl-Child
You left
A dropp of you
Within me
The droplet
Became my whole!
I carried you
Lovingly for what
Seemed a life-time
The other day
You kicked life
Out of me
Your semen containing
The designer chromosomes
Irreversible in their uniqueness
Lie around puddles of blood
That drained life out of me
Much despised by your male ego!
*A man recently kicked life/ves out of his wife for carrying a girl-child...
poem by Indira Babbellapati
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