I AM PROUD TO BE A WOMAN...Seema Devi

I AM PROUD TO BE A WOMAN...

Come what may, suffer any amount
I am proud to be a woman....as
I am immortalized in Ajantha and Ellora caves
I am adored as Mary, the holy mother
I am sensually immortalized by Ravi Verma
In his colors and canvases
I am the space queen Kalpana Chwala,
The serving saint, Mother Teresa,
Sarojini Naidu the nightingale of India,
I am alive as Sheeren of Farhad, Laila of Majnu
The bewitching beauty , Cleopatra.
I live in the hearts of every Hindu God,
I am the delicate Helen of Troy,
I am Florence Nitingale,
I live as a great artist Amrita Sher Gill,
I am the Sita worshiped for her chastity,
I am Kittur Chennamma, Kanyaki and Jhosi Ki Rani.
I cannot be erased from the face of this Earth
For my beauty, courage , intelligence and sacrifices
Are from that Divine hand, which
can never be defaced or eliminated,,
Now Malala who is the voice of woman.
And all the sweating women who long for
Education, justice and peace, walking miles
For water and burning like a little candle
To light the Home and Light the Heart.
YES
I am proud to be a WOMAN !

Seema Devi...8/3/17

My sketch by Chinmoy Halder...my sweet child