I Protest

I do not live in a sealed world

no signboards are on display here

I spread  the message of equality

in gender, religion and politics.

If you raise evil eye

on her rising breasts

I protest.

If you bar her from temple

for her procreative fluids

I protest.

If you imprison her

in your routine duty

I protest.

If you treat her as a slave

rape her without her consent

taking her for granted

I protest.

If the old age home is

the address of your parents

who made you

what you are

I protest.

But if you discount my entity
throw at me your lamplight laws

I'll rise in my fury

as the new climate to

blast your towers of glory

and spit fire on your eyes,

forgetting my role

you have assigned to me:

No, I am Nature in uniform

respect me as I am.

Sabita Sahu