We raise our children for marriages  

Teach boys to become husbands and fathers  

Teach girls to become wives and mothers 

Men become decision-makers,  

Women become the doers and the acceptors.  

On the large screen of life,  

Men reject, and women get rejected.  

But on the smaller screens of our mobile phones,  

The power play becomes lenient.  

Women are also rejecting and  

Men are also being rejected.  

 

On mobile screens,  

Traditional factors of marriage  

Like caste, class, and family heritage 

Remain hidden.  

On the screens here,  

Our desires are on display 

With full brightness on.  

This brightness hides your secrets.  

Bodies here,  

Are a click away.  

Meetings here,  

Don’t necessarily become unions.  

Our existence and erasure here  

Is a click away.  

Here, we play team games  

With options that have hearts, flesh, and blood.  

Here, we live and die multiple times -  

With one swipe at a time : )   

 

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