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!