No eyes

So I woke up today and stumbled into my washroom... I am all groggy... ek toh its 5:15 in the morning... i am so sleepy... i want to roll over and go back to sleep but ive got a good stern warning from my mom that i have to wake up.... so i happily (yeah right) wake up and my hair(its not even shoulder length btw) kind of all over as an entangled ruffled up mess.... and i push the bedsheet off me... god knows what i do in the night but every morning when i wake up the thing is wrapped around me a good 2-3 times.... then i sit still in my bed with my feet in the slippers.... and then i stumble into my washroom.... I like to look at myself in the mirror when i wake up( i like to look at myself in the mirror anytime actually but i think i look my best in the morning when i have just woken up) So i happily check my face and imagine the scare i get... there's a blank white face staring back at me... i have never seen more flesh around someone's eyes in my life... the eyes are pure slits... i check to see if i am actually awake .... i am... i cant believe it... i look again... i get up from the toilet seat and go stare at the mirror... still no eyes,.... slowly it sinks into me that my eyes have swollen up... so basically this whole description was to describe the horror of having to face the sight of swollen eyes first thing in the morning when im not even completely conscious... hehe...

A Curse (an original work by me)

I was minding my business,
making Sure I kept my head low,
but I still attracted the evil eye
of the person whose house i cleant;
And now my life is ruined--
All he has to do is a few years
but he is a man
And I am a woman in a male dominated world

I had it all,
a good job and married life;
We both earned well
But I live with his parents
and they always want more:
So I am beaten, abused and burnt
and there is nothing I can do
because he is the man
An I am a woman in this male dominated world.

My life darkened that day
when the only male in the family passed away,
And my four sisters and mother had nothing to eat.
Forced to come to the city
I was taken by surprise
When the same politicians who danced with me the previous night
Forced me into the arms of sleaze
But they are men of power and many whims
And i am a woman in this male dominated worls.

Those were the happiest nine months I'd spent
Expecting a new arrival in this vast unfriendly desert
And then came the windfall:
i had given birth to a girl--
they forced me to give her death
when I wanted to give her life.
But they were men and
I am just a woman in this male dominated world.

So I went for a walk with my boyfriend;
And we held hands and spoke of our bright futures;
And then along came a man in uniform
and took us to the police station.
he was asked to leave me there while he returned with some money
what happened next is too horrible to describe.
they are still trying to prove him guilty
while I try to prove to myself that I am not.
but he is a man and the enforcer of law
And I am a woman in this male dominated world.

What shocks me most
In all of this is that
NO WOMAN OFFERED TO HELP ME
WHEN I WAS FORCED FROM MY BABY
BURNT FOR NOTHING MORE THAN GREED
ABUSED IN A WAY NO ONE SHOULD BE;
THEY STOOD BY THEIR MEN AND WATCHED
BUT WHAT COULD THEY DO!!!
THEY WERE ONLY WOMEN IN THIS MALE DOMINATED WORLD.