Those Stereotypes

To all those stereotypes

 Are your eyes that small?

Your mind that narrow?

And your thinking that confined?

Pink and daisies equals a girl,

While Blue and truck a guy?

Marriage is defined by caste,

And personality by face?

Intelligence by grades,

Harassments by bruises,

Future by wealth,

And present by past?

A man must work 

Women must cook.

Rape is a matter of hush-hush

And short skirts and tank tops are forbidden 

Because they apparently show 

Too much of the skin you’ve never seen 

It is a sin to be menstruating?

And so is it to differ from the ideal body type?

Gay marriage is unacceptable,

And LGBT is illegal?

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Why, I ask?                                                                                          

You tell me that it’s to maintain the society’s prestige 

I’m looking all around

And the only dent I find in our society is you.

Yes, you and all your unnecessary voices.

Freedom of speech is for justice and expression                                                                

Not your free declaration about a stranger’s life.                                                               

Wake up; you’re not in nineteen eighty Four                                                               

Let me give you an advice

Grow your mind and soul

So when something bothers you 

A successful woman or two,

A guy dressed in pink and a girl in blue,

Roll your eyes, role them on

Perhaps it’ll get stuck

And you can see the world with a better view.