quarantine, Thoughts on world

Women under lockdown

Somewhere out there,
a wife dreads the next 21 days
she has to be with her abusive husband,who failed to change his ways.

who failed to change his ways.

A girl will have to tell her parentsabout her appointment at the clinic,

about her appointment at the clinic,

while her boyfriend continues
to pretendlike she doesn’t exist.

like she doesn’t exist.

It’s assumed that working moms
will takeover the household troubles,

She doesn’t get an off from office,
her work just doubles.

There’s a housewife who can’t watch
her favourite serial at ten.

Because controlling the remote
is the first chapter of ‘how to be men’.

A teenage girl depends on an archaic method
from the 18th century

because her father is to shy
to ask for pads at the pharmacy

Humanity seems to be going through a test

but this too seems rigged at best

and bigoted at worst

against the fairer sex.