(I)
Had they not pointed
finger at men
for "not controlling their wives well enough"
To compensate for their own lack of voice,
women would have been free
of patriarchal injustice.
(II)
Had they not crowned
daughter-in-laws the heiresses
of their own past sufferings to pass down the legacy
of indifference and brutality,
women would have been free
of successional indignity.
(III)
Had they not entitled
their daughters
dutiful to valour
and tender to resilient,
women would have been free
of social inequity.
Nirmali Medhi