As I drift away ....

If I am what I feel

Then I am a tissue paper,

White and jaded!

Rough hands ripped me out of the closet

Twisting and twirling me,

Shredding me into a million splinters!

I know not, whom to blame

As I get hurled into the abyss

And I resign to grim darkness!

--------- Sruthi Wilson Thekkath

Wrote this after the sudden demise of actor Pratyusha Banerjee! I seriously cannot understand why the majority of women in our country choose to be submissive and be doormats! Empowerment of women is the need of the hour!