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  • Home > Fight Against Dowry > Poems on Dowry > Marriage

    Marriage

    Credits: Naurin Ramay

    My name is marriage
    I am daughter of this earth
    Was born free to surf
    I was abducted by the tradition of dowry
    Who raped my dreams without any mercy
    i kept yelling to free me from the handcuffs of dowry
    I was left alone in the dark alley
    i was poisoned, i was tortured i was burned
    But no one came to save me from this commination
    Today, i lay in my grave
    Cursing all those who were gay
    Murmuring, turning their back and closing their eyes
    As the daughters of earth were being burned and disgraced
    I pity the callousness of my society
    Where they own this tradition of dowry

     

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