Don’t cry for me

Cynthia Stephen

Don’t cry for me.

Anonymous I may be to you, but

I have a name, a self. I too get thirsty

But when I go to drink they say the well is not for me.

I go to work in your field but you think my work is not worth paying for.

You pay me a pittance. That man asked me to go with him last week but I refused.

Now I just might, because I have to pay the doctor to treat my child. His father, the wastrel,

Left a year ago, good riddance to him, but now this son is my responsibility.

I don’t know….will this fellow keep me or sell me to someone else? If that is what it means, then

maybe I won’t go. But what should I do?

But you – don’t you cry for me. It makes no difference to me whether you do or not.

Let me be. Our worlds are not the same. A different sun rises on my world every day.

In response to For Anonymous

Cynthia Stephen is an independent researcher and is the State Programme Director, of Mahila Samakhya Karnataka

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