Me at Thirty Nine
by Geetika Sodhi Lohan
(Ghaziabad, India )
Thinking loudly
About me turning thirty nine,
Almost touching forty
Still doing pretty fine.
I don’t share my chocolate with kids
I snore in trains and flights
Not scared of sea
Fearless on heights
hardly saved money for future
Have No inheritance,
I eat what i can
Travel as I get a chance,
I have fenced myself
With barbs and electric wires,
I refuse to prove my worth
I won’t cross fires,-
Society so far
Has failed to keep me tamed
For choosing to be me
I have been persecuted and blamed
A life lived well
Tales to tell
Scars to show
Still happiness to flow
Failures to ponder
Success to flaunt
Memories so pleasant
Times that haunt
People devils
People with kind hearts
Helplessness and dead ends
Courage and restarts
Happiness lost to world
Part of self lost to death
Some damaged some saved
But Strong till my last breath
Nothing like
A woman should be
Choosing to be as free
As a man could be
Not the man of the house
I am a woman standing tall
Not decorated to attract anyone
I refuse to be a mall
Hail hearty saint with a sword
Oh yes I am thirty nine
Life has been pretty good so far
I am doing just fine!! #geet
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