Culture & Society

Poem: The Lived Experience

The poet calls out the society for harbouring 'Fear, violence, threats, manipulation, Tools of control, Oppression, exploitation, subjugation', and reflects upon the vagaries of life.

Reflections
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Shackled, silenced, stigmatised
Moulded, conditioned, accustomed, trained
Ideology or social arrangement바카라 웹사이트
An oft-repeated script, a familiar refrain

Glorified, objectified, othered
Glass-cliffed, placed on a pedestal
Bossy-bitchy-pushy-domineering
Saint-martyr-maternal-malleable바카라 웹사이트

Seen not heard
Chaste, modest, torchbearer of virtue바카라 웹사이트
Upholder of honour 바카라 웹사이트
Or a commodity devalued

Irrelevant, invisible, on the shelf바카라 웹사이트
Or in the first flush of youth
Stepping up? Speaking out?
Who’d believe the truth?

Taunts, jeers, ridicule, judgement
The shame, the blame
Gold-digger, power hungry
Greedy for fifteen minutes of fame바카라 웹사이트

Perhaps, in time, they’d fade
Losses, lumps, bruises, pains
But for the infinity mirrors바카라 웹사이트
Scars, bumps, aches, veins

Constructed and deconstructed바카라 웹사이트
Fear, violence, threats, manipulation
Tools of control
Oppression, exploitation, subjugation

Double standards and social sanctions
For compliance with norms
Maintenance of hierarchies
In any shape or form

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