With a big dream in my small eyes
I left the town at the age of nine
A ten rupee note and infinite hopes
Was all I could collect from my home

Tired, hungry and restless me
Sat on a rock at the shore of the sea
With watery eyes I looked at the waves
The high and the low tides made me brave

I continued my journey with destination undefined
The path which I chose could not be rewind
A new place, a new world it was
Which broke all the boundaries of human laws

On talking to a girl just double of my age
I got the answer tat it was a cage
The work started at nine in the night
And ended up in the daylight

I remained silent, focusing on her words
But the young mind failed to interpret those thoughts
I asked her again, “what all we have to do?”
And to this she said, “Give your body, conscience and soul too,
Trading of human flesh takes place here
And the purest feeling of making love becomes a fear.
Women are sold and buried alive in graves
And by doing this they think that men are brave.
The more you give up, the more you earn,
Whatever the situation teaches we have to learn”

The shine of money covered my blind spot
And I entered into a profession of which,
A girl would have never thought

Days passed and so did the months
I sold my body for earning funds
Every night, I surrendered myself
For quenching the thirst of those greedy wolves

I cried, cried and cried again
And shed my tears all in vain
As I was on a road which had no end
And taking a step back was also banned



Men of all ages came one by one
And raped my soul just for fun
Childhood, adolescence and youth was gone
In serving men till the ray of dawn

The empty wine glasses and wrinkled bed
Were the silent spectators of that act
My body felt the pain of those scratches and rashes
Like a half-burnt cigarette converting into ashes

Life became bitter like the taste of wine
Even the days looked dark, thought the sun shined
A simple girl entered into hell
This destroyed her present and future as well

Now after eighteen years when I look at myself
I see a wretched woman who lost her soul for wealth
I wish I could, go back in time
And change my life by pressing rewind

But now I think it’s far too late
To change the course of my fate
Because I have become, a PROSTITUTE
Whom this society will always hate
Whom this society will always hate!