Dowry
Dowry
In an unhappy married life
She tried to become a good wife,
Carrying the scars of shoes and sticks
She gulped her pain even if she was sick!
Her husband was always rowdy
The reason being dowry,
Money was what he wanted
To which the girl's family never responded!
In a fit of rage, her in-laws would torture her day and night
She was so weak to differentiate between wrong and right!
They would warn her to death
While she would sit and count her breath!
When her family could not fulfill their demand
Her in-laws buried her alive in the sand!
Another daughter lost her life
People got the topic of gossips, while her family cried!
When will this stupid act of dowry stop?
When will the ratio of women's death drop?
Why is it always a girl's fault?
Will such crimes ever take a halt?
How many more girls will die?
How much will they cry?
Why don't you stop such brutal acts?
Is it humanity that you people lack?
Is someone's life more precious than money?
Do you think murdering someone is funny?
Don't you people feel the pain
Beating your wives again and again?
It's time you end it all
Because no one will save you from the crime that's so cheap and small!