A MENSTURATING WOMAN
Don't touch that,Sit apart
Immediately take a bath
Entry to the temple is a ban
Touching people is a crime
Eating and having fun is a sin
You are chumming my darling
Hide your pads in a packet
No one should know your dates
Pain should be concealed
Your free movement should be sealed
For you are menstruating dear darling
Puberty and its norms
I was continually being told
The myth associated with it
Is patriarchal in every form.
The scientific reason and hygiene
Are kept on a hold.
Talking about it is no shame
Wearing a tampoon is no fashion
and nothing great
Mood swings and endurance are it's trait
For heaven sake normalise and understand
It's a biological cycle and women are no crate.
Motherhood is its outcome
Power to an entire nation
Progeny and the new generation
Is in the hands of
A MENSTRUATING WOMAN.
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