Journey of A Woman

The whole world is a stage.
And all the men and women are merely players;
Everybody has to play different parts in life;
And a women plays several parts in life;
And after playing each role, her life changes;
And those phase are divided into several stages.

Starting off as an infant;
Not willing to let go
of a mothers warm hand;
Growing older and going to school;
And her tears calling her mom
to come and pick her up soon.

Older she grows,
she thinks that she’s no more a child;
Her body changes and emotions go wild;
Falling in love and her first heart break;
Crying alone, so that no one hears her pain;
And in front of everyone she acts completely fake.

Older she grows;
She tries to fight with this competitive world;
She tries hard to make her Mom and Dad proud;
She works day and night to reach success;
And give her parents, the world’s all happiness.

Then a stage comes,
when she becomes someone’s wife;
And accept her husbands family,
and fulfills all her responsibilities;
She loves them all, and dedicates them all her life;
She never complaints, neither ask any queries;
For the sake of others happiness, she ignores all her worries.

Then she conceives and her life changes;
Her body changes, and insecurities increase;
In her 9 months of journey,
she goes through so much of pain;
But after seeing those tiny legs and hands,
all her pain goes in vain.

Then a stage comes;
When she wants to become her child’s best friend;
She tries hard to understand this new generation;
She assures to fulfill all the expectations her child has;
There is no soul like mother on this earth,
She dedicates all her life for her kid’s sake since birth.

Older she grows;
She needs someone’s support to walk;
She feels so lonely, and search someone to talk;
She’s taken for granted;
As she’s no more able to do anything;
She’s left alone
with so much of medicines in a closed room;
Her loneliness kills her from inside;
But unable to tell her kids
who are so busy in their life;
Days pass by and her soul leaves her body;
Her body is buried.
But her sacrifices live on-
And help the world to evolve..

~Pragathi Patel~

Pragathi is studying in 3rd year of college in B.A (ENGLISH). She loves reading books and writing poetry, blogs etc. She is also trying to write a novel. For her, poetries are the best way to express feelings, where thousands of emotions are put into a small poetry with beautiful words. She loves to write poetry & loves more when people are able to connect with it. She feels, writing is the most beautiful way to express ourselves. When no one can understand us, we write about our anger, sadness, anxiety, fear, separation, happiness, love, lust, priorities, problems etc. Thousands of problems and one solution that is writing!

Cover Painting Credit: JYOTSNA