A Eunuch Unwanted Human.... Poem by Sadashivan Nair

This womb is too small,
Suffocating gloomy tiny space,
Pushing me towards doorway,
Desperately waiting enter new world,
Crowded sounds in outside world,
May be family waiting my birth,
It was dark thundery cloud,
In Indian town at 8 dawn I was born,
A nurse bewildered watching me,
from top to bottom I was same,
but with deshaped reproductive organ,
rushed towards dad and said
'A child is born',
In curiocity dad asked 'He or She'?
But with no answer she went inside,
His curiocity intensified,
worried for fate,
rushed inside took me in arms,
Watched closely,
child born was no boy nor a girl,
but 'a eunuch unwanted human',
In shock looked in eyes of mom,
Eyes of both were wet,
Speaking eye to eye consoling each,
kissed my head and said
'O' God what have you done? '
Sobbing and holding me hard against his chest,
In Tears rolling through his eyes,
he yelled 'You have cheated, ruined my child,
What will my child's future be? '
It's a country eunuchs aren't humans,
But are cursed,
Solitary confined, distanced by all,
Aren't treated like human but as fauna,
The fate of a eunuch is gloom,
Pay for mistakes done by God.
A true story of eunuch narrated in 1989,
Had a female name 'Sarla'.

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