LILITH

He walked into her territory

To tame her wild passions.

Cloaking herself with modesty,

She shattered his nakedness.

She owes him faith and equality,

And not piety or blind obedience.

She can never be his Eve,

For he will always be Adam.

 വാർത്തയെഴുതുന്നവളും  വാർത്തയായിരിക്കുന്നു 

ആൾക്കൂട്ടത്തിന്റെ പ്രതിഷേധങ്ങളിൽ,
അവസാനമില്ലാത്ത ചർച്ചകളിൽ
അവളിന്ന് ആളിക്കത്തുമായിരിക്കും
നമുക്കത്‌  കണ്ടിരിക്കാം.
അകലങ്ങളിലെ ഒറ്റ തുരുത്തുകളിൽ,
വെറിപൂണ്ട കാമാഗ്നിയിൽ
എരിഞ്ഞടങ്ങുന്ന ഇരകളെ
കണ്ടില്ലെന്ന് നടിക്കാം.

I AM TWICE-BORN

 I am the first baby of my mother.

Why do they call me a newborn baby?

My mother is in her late sixties.

I am halfway through my life.

I celebrated my birthday last November.

Why so much fun and fuss over the birth now?

Am I a “Brahmin” to be twice-born?

I was always located in the backward regions.

Mother ignores you at times, they said.

So they conceived me in their minds.

They fed me with slogans and strikes.

Am I the first or the twenty ninth baby?

Yesterday I was just one among my siblings.

Today I am left alone in a political labour room.

They are playing divide and rule game on me.

That is a colonial game but I am not a colony.

Is this my rebirth or first birth? How old am I?

After all age is just a number. I am all the same.

We are Responsible

Our ways to shield womanhood

Compartmentalized womanhood.

We left her alone in a closed world

With all doors open to catastrophe.

She was under constant threat

But dreamt of our helping hand.

Barbarianism within our minds

Once  stepped into her world.

We heard her cries in utter pain

Our passiveness easily ignored it.

We celebrated her helpless woes

For the sake of media activism.

We politicized her painful silence

In the name of women's rights.

We who could not protect her virginity,

Failed to save her innocent life too.

Endless rapes on her femininity
Continues to be the soul of our activism.

We preach divinity of her martyrdom

And practice sheer male chauvinism.

Stop this nonsensical hypocrisy

And be open to admit our sins.

Let us refine our malicious soul

To not to sorely confess again
That "we are responsible"

Alone I Sing for You

Alone I sing for you

I mean you all

With fire inside

And smile outside

Alone I sing for you

I mean you all

With destroyed past

And dignified dreams

Alone I sing for you 

I mean you all

Who dares to walk alone

Along the road not taken

Alone I sing for you

I mean you all 

With no basic rights

In this celebrated democracy.

Alone I sing for you

I mean you all 

Who lacks freedom

Within this free world.

Alone I sing for you

I mean you all 

Whose voices are still unheard 

In the midst of noisy crowd

Alone I sing for you

I mean you all 

The unprivileged majority

Within the privileged minority.

Alone I sing for you

I mean , for you all 

I sing the songs of silence

Born out of  the woes of voiceless