Prologue: The poem you're about to read addresses a sensitive issue in society: the oppression of women. I've penned this poem after observing and reading multiple news articles. To delve deep into the issue I personally met some women in villages of Telangana State, as I was interviewing women of multiple backgrounds, each one of her had a painful background and a poignant story to tell, yet they were smiling, as if they were happy for surviving such tough times and were confident to face their life ahead with bravery. They were like soldiers who've been through the most harsh and toughest training and were ready for the war at any time. With multiple stories I heard, I had met a women whose life journey was encapsulated with all these stories I heard, she was too close to me personally, and I was in tears when I heard her story for the 1st time. The poem takes you through this woman's journey in life from her own perspective. "I was born, and I don't know w...
Narcissus, a youth and very handsome, charming boy for whom the nymphs of the river and mountain, the women of forest and desserts were longing to have, many of the women and nymphs confessed their love to narcissus but the youth narcissus on admired and being loved by so many women developed a strange feeling of pride to himself and insulted every women who proposed him thinking that they aren't beautiful enough to be with him. One day a great nymph on seeing her fellow nymphs sacrificing and dying for the love of narcissus in anger cursed The youth narcissus that he will have the same fate as the nymphs he'll love someone very badly and die with the pain of not having loved back. Some days after while the narcissus was travelling through a beautiful forest he came across a lake which with water like silver, to which the shepherds never drove their flocks, nor the mountain goats resorted, nor any of the beasts of the forests; neither was it defaced with fallen leaves or bra...