UNWILLING VICTIM

With a ring
You engage me
With this golden loop
You cage me
Through condescension
Disparage me
Your polite words
Now enrage me.
 

Honour gone
Pride shorn
Drowning in your scorn
A woman born
An unwilling victim
A trapped fly
For freedom I cry
 

You have caught me
Now swat me!

~Sumaitri~

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