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Morality

Young Sheela
Comes from a household
Where her father left
To be with another woman
Leaving Sheela and her mother
To face the neighbours
Who call them names
That have no English translation.

So Sheela
Goes looking for love
In a society that shuns it
In the name of
Immorality.

But Sheela
Hears the promise of being loved
From a boy who is loved
As a fruit of
Patriarchy.
And the boy instead
Is looking for sex
In a girl so naive
She knows not what it means.

So Sheela
Does what she must
For this boy to stay
But tells no one at all
For the sake of
Morality.
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