They say this is the work of a girl, do it!
They say behave like a girl!
What does it mean? like a girl?
Why this difference? I am I,
I will exist as I wish.
You are a boy, play with cars, not dolls,
You are a boy! How can you cry like this?
So what if I am a boy? I have emotions too!
My likes dislikes are already set. How to
Laugh, cry, play, everything predetermined.
So what is the meaning of my existence?
Where is my identity? I am but
A puppet of society, its norms
This is the practice, the answer is given always
Talk and behave as society decrees,
Neither thoughts, nor likes, nor speech
Are your own, your very own!
What if the girl played with cars, climbed mountains?
What if the boy cooked, cleaned vessels?
Shall we try this shuffle? Shall we start? do it?
Will the world reverse? Will it turn upside down??
Now this campaign is for survival
Of identity, of satisfaction,
Speak up, step up, march ahead
Time to bring in social changes
Time to build a new society.
- By Prabha Raghunandan
