Monday, February 14, 2022

A Cloistered Life

 

I had 

A cloistered life.


In school

No one 

Dared

To ask 

Religion

Or 

Caste.


My young one

In primary two

Asked me

If she's a Thiyya,

A Sunni, a Nadar

Or Amethyst

(Atheist?).


I don't know,

I replied.


But I have to

show 

I have freedom

to show

I have no freedom,

she said.


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