Monday, January 30, 2006

A Veiled Woman

No matter who she is,
How pretty is her face,
Or how gentle is her grace

It's perhaps better for her
To remain veiled, to keep
Her identity and her morality

Than to take her veil off
To show off her body and face –
In the world she has a place

She exists behind
The darkness of her veil
Not to hide their sins

It is their will
To keep the life she lives.
Her morality is perhaps

Better than your morality.
Her morality is not their sin,
Nor their sin is her morality.

Morality! what after all is morality?
Existence! what after all is existence?
And what is pious and what is sin?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Please read the 2nd and 3rd sentences of Donatella's reply to Suchitra's post.

And I beg a gift: please write for us, about yourself.
-- heather

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