The Girl In The Shorts

Tik Tok Tik Tok Tok Tok Tok
Past the houses, the shops, the rickshaws, the autos
I walk! There’s a bunch, a never-ending bunch,
That looks at me, turns its head, then smiles, and flees!
But what do I do?
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Ignoring the bunch, I continue to walk! I felt a brush, or was it in my mind?
I straightened my spine, I looked up
It was that bunch, just mixed in the crowd!
I increased my pace, to walk out of it,
But it was a bunch, a never-ending bunch!
Music in my ears, I divert my attention, and
Tik Tok Tik Tok Tok Tok Tok
I continue to walk! The bunch looks lecherously at my legs,
As if that is the only important thing in its life!
Old and Young!
Married, Unmarried!
Rich and Poor!
All beliefs alike, form the bunch, a never-ending bunch!
Hey You! You! and You!
It’s my skin, it’s not your meat!
I shout in my head, but
Tik Tok Tik Tok Tok Tok Tok
I keep my calm, and I continue to walk! What is your education?
What is your qualification?
Now seem baseless questions!
Why? You ask me!
Because what defines you, is what you are at the core! But Hey Hey!
There are people, a very few people,
Not part of that never-ending bunch!
That do not make me uncomfortable!
That do not tell me, how I should dress,
That do not scare me, if I walk alone in the streets at night!
That let me be me! Because that’s just me, a part of me,
I am the girl in the shorts!