A Congratulatory Card to All Women

Today, we are celebrating the International Women's Day. This is no ordinary day. It is an important day for me as I reflect on the wonderful women who have shaped my life in different ways. I might not name you individually here but your names are written in my heart. This poem is a gift to you all.

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Dear Women of the World,

My pen’s nib cannot be restrained anymore—

If I were Tororot, this pen would have been dipped

On an inkpot the size of Indian Ocean

To write this message across the hearts of all women

To convey my deepest affections to their cause

My frail hand trembles at your greatness;

Your wombs have carried kings and queens;

Great minds of thinkers have once

Been replenished in Your Essence;

Your hearts, both true and fair,

Have carried the grace of humanity

Even when men, blinded by madness of war,

Have dissented on the true song of your hearts

You have balanced the stead of mankind on

The pedestal that ensured their future

Like all people of greatness,

You have withstood adversity,

Once believed not to vote

Once thought to be inferior

And now, with the Judge of time,

Your appeal is written on the brow of men

That they were wrong after all;

But you have let the dust of the past

Settle in order to allow clear vision

Of the vision;

What declarations or proclamations

Can aptly codify these feats—

To be remembered in the hallmark of history?

You women of the world,

Men have always got it all wrong

They don’t conceive babies

Yet they pass policies and legislations

For babies whose pain they haven’t borne

And in their Greed, they have always,

Unlike you women,

Ate all that the homestead could survive on

They are thinking of conquering everything

The moon, the sun, the wind, the height

Yet, at the very basic level of simple acts

Of kindness, hopefulness and peace

They haven’t discovered a simple invention;

We need women

Women who can change the course of our history

Women who can help us discover our worth

Women who can inspire greatness and kindness

Women who can lead and think of the future

Women who can brave the heat of the sun and

Delight in the awe of the moon

Women who can teach us men to love