She mourns, for years now
Her trembling feet, marginally contorted
Of patriarchal plague
And the parochial counterparts
Terminally oppressed yet averse
Of defiance and deliverance
Fabricating solace in supremacy
Over people such as this
The girl under the Black Veil
Celebrating, they aren’t her.
“Don’t touch her”, says the stout dame
Clad azure by destiny
Unlike the destitute girl, devoid of one
Flipping a penny, her petty perusal
With eyes sly on the butcher
Who treats his wife no different
“Why not?”, asks her son
Untouched by social antiquities
Delphic of even his mother
For she hasn’t indoctrinated him yet
To detest all ‘she’ but her.
Promiscuous and vicious, immoral and sinful
She killed thousand of men
Not any but her lovers
Now forgotten, just like her
Tears, dry under the black veil
Of sins never committed
By the sixteen year old, married off at ten
Realizing it wasn’t only strangers she was going with
But strangers she was going from
The penny, a reminder
It wasn’t them but her
Ominous since birth.
She hauled along, burdened
Of accusations and exclusion
Incapable of letting go her inner child
Innocent, eager and deprived
Of being ordinary, to skip and jump
Play with Karuna, her doll
Both of them lost
One to time and the other to society
She sits on the ground
Making it look less muddy
For both her body and character, more Grimed
Blackened by the black veil she wears.
She speaks, begs
The voice of stipulated silence
Hushed, quieter than her hunger
She ingests, scrapes
The dirt, of abandoned aspirations
Filthy, pious than her existence
She cries, bellows
The tears, of insulted innocence
Unshed, pithier than her black veil.
They say it’s because she sinned
For her husbands died, all six of them
Not because of them but her
They say she deserved to die
Like she did, sitting on the ground, veiled
Not only due to hunger
But her sins, for she was born a girl
I say she had to die
For the weight of the Black veil
Not hers but the society’s
Became too heavy for her.
Note:
‘Under the Black veil’ is a story of a girl’s lost battle against exploitation and social stigmas. It touches upon various sensitive experiences and tries to appeal to people through emotions by creating a story with ‘Black Veil’ being a representation of sins.
By: Saiyam Jain
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