Single women

Powerful women
Who have the true power
Who can survive on their own
Without a child, man or woman.

Why is the society so scared of them?
Forever eager to crush them, brand them?
Witch, pervert, mentally deranged
The list goes on and on never ends.

They try to crush them, intimidate them
They leave no stone unmoved to do that
If we read history with care
It will freeze our souls to know how.

Stoning, burning, ostracizing
Every trick under the hat has been used.
I truly sometimes wonder why it is so.
Why is this fear so cruel and strong?

They love to crush those who are weak
Looking up on them for crumbs and pity
They love to kick them, and pet them
They happily Use them, and abuse them.

If they call their life a failure
Then they get a pat on back, sympathy too.
If they say they are far happier
The gossip mongering machine starts to work.

And soon the whole place is abuzz
Trying to find out non existing reason
Why a woman is happy all alone
Soon they invent a dark, unsavoury reason.

Then they come out to punish her
Sad but true women too lurk in that crowd
When the mob justice is settled
Everyone returns home licking their fangs.