Not Just A Commodity...

This article has given me goosebumps...
Since times immemorial baby girls women,
Having being treated like second class citizens without any value
Being born a girl in some societies would be worst, thing,
That could have, happen to the poor girl that is being born as a girl...
Being drowned discarded like rubbish or even worse let her grow up
To be abused by those that should have known better.
The blood of their blood...
To be given to some brute to abuse rape defile,
Making her feel worse than an animal without hope...
But it's so refreshing to see this place here in India...
A very good record they have not, in how to treat their females their other halves...
How things could be turned around so easily if only they followed suit they could...
Such as this village in Piplantri In the western State of Rajasthan...
Every time a girl baby is born
A hundred & eleven trees they'll plant, in the celebration of the woman baby girl born...
I'd say I'll take my hat off to you,
These enlighten peoples with respect treating their women folk like human, beings...
Not just some commodity
Extolling every last ounce of their self-respect, every drop of sweat, of blood...
Respect, they have none from those keepers of theirs!...
My blood runs cold!
OMG!
That route must not envisage...
Must not go there...
The members of this said, group... It seems they're as happy as can be...
& just as it should be!
A girl woman's not just a commodity,
They are made of flesh and blood & feelings just like anybody!
They dream dreams, & aspirations to achieve their goals...
Which at times isn't very much, but to be treated equally.
Not being dragged through the bush crawling through the mire of life...
Probably wishing that born they wouldn't be...
The picture, that I see right there before me,
A people's enlighten than most you see!
Appreciating their women folk,
After all without their women,
Where would they be?                                      
  
                                   By Connie James.