-Hisila Yami

Inside the four walls you will hear

Cracking of fire splinters

Scrubbing of utensils, floors

Crying, wailing of hungry babies

Followed by hushing.

Inside the four walls you will hear

Thuds, jerks, beatings

And growling of male voice

A faint voice pleading

Moaning, sighing and dying.

Who knows what goes on inside the four walls!

Inside the walls of a ‘secure home’ she is to fall.

…except those martyrs unheard and unsung.

Pleading from societal graves their daughters to waken!

Janamanas, year 2, Volume 2(1979)