Forced to be a Man

Here is a woman,
Left out in the open,
To live on her own,
In storm and thunder,
In summer, as well as winter.

She cries,
She shrieks,
But alas, no one hears.

Shedding all her fears,
She then roars, 
And growls.

Then comes a day,
When the world bows,
As she acts upon her vows,
Revering her, thinking
That she's (still) a woman.

But by then she knows
She's no more a woman,
She's now instead, a man, 
In the body of a woman.

- Navneeta Dash