Eunuchs’ Peril

Started the saga as Castrated males

Safer to serve trusted to the bed

For cutting the hair and bathing body Royal

Messaging in the world san damn Mobile!

 

No kith of our womb

And no family of our own

Could be wiped without a trace

None to mourn our peaceful sojourn!

 

Third sex, transgender, Hijra and

Effeminate homosexual

Right from the womb

Added to the lot of Eunuch the Miserable

 

The owes are not dated far back

Twenty second century too

Preserves our greenish wounds alive

Is there a soul to voice out the chaos?

 

Male and female in all the forms

Ticking which is out of form

Genderless we are

Thoughtless you are all!

 

Kingdoms long gone

Subservience blown

Who will offer bread?

For the unfortunate segue!

 

Neither he nor she

No textbook on we

Is it all our sin?

Don’t we have our den?

 

Pushed hard to beg

Prostitute to sup

Dance to please the two

Are we born to fuss?

 

No father to own and no mother to-fro

Dark secret structures, God cruel butcher

Make the mess and enjoy

Teaming with you wretched!

 

8.12.2007

 

Note: one good news: Tamilnadu govt has recognized them as Trans gender. lets respect them as humans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Comments

This displays their plight with such accuracy that my heart aches as i read it.

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I admire the issues that you take up in your poems.
We are proud to have you on our site !

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this is really a very well written and well thought poem…it has a lot to offer

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interesting choice of subject……. has to take some ability to right on such an off-beat topic…..

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“Neither he nor she”

every line is a poem in itself! but i think d title could have been a bit more sensitive…gr8

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