by Bindu Narula | 28 Jul 2023 | Poems
You Are The One For more than sixty thousand years,All around the world,Tribes of women lived in peace and harmony.They were the custodians of Sacred Wisdom.The women of my bloodline,Were the storytellers of the Great Mother.They wove songs and stories into every...
by Bindu Narula | 2 Sep 2021 | Poems
The Shame Of It The shame of it isI thought I asked for it.That it was my fault.I was only four years old. The shame of it isI stuffed it all in my body.I carried the perpetrators’ filthDeep inside my body.And then I forgot. The shame of it is thatBy keeping it a...
by Bindu Narula | 18 May 2020 | Poems
We Belong To The Light We’re not from here. Lifetime after lifetime, We’ve waited. And today, It’s certain. We belong to the Light! Been misunderstood. Got burned at the stake, Or on funeral pyres. Had throats slit for Speaking the Truth. But now, The suffering’s...
by Bindu Narula | 4 Dec 2019 | Poems
Vulnerable The drought breaks. Grace enters. Compassion pours into a heart, Encased in concrete. Resistance yields to Beloved’s tears. Worthlessness and shame wash away. Body softens. Eyes glow. Heart whispers, Be vulnerable. A rigid heart shatters. If this poem...
by Bindu Narula | 6 Feb 2019 | Poems
Done They stitched the mouths of the storytellers in my family. Stories brimming with Courage, Beauty, Love Got replaced by rule books On should’s and don’ts. That’s why I was born. With mouth stitched up. That’s why I put up and shut up Until everything...
by Bindu Narula | 13 Oct 2018 | Poems
Make Way As I Rise What I wanna know is How did you get away with it? Convincing me it was my fault I didn’t get the job. That I just wasn’t good enough. How did you gas light me Into believing I was a waste Of human resources The day I declared I was with child? But...
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