<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: The Downtrodden Women</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just skeletal figures, white-saree clad! <br>Wind-carried, frail beings that hardly walk; <br>They hurry ’cause ’tis late with weather bad; <br>Their mouths are stiff: ’tis better they don’t talk! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If not for this job, they will surely starve! <br>Tho’ ill-paid still, they smile and laugh and cry; <br>Half-literate, a good niche, they can’t carve; <br>Into their personal lives, people do pry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such is the lot of poor women these days! <br>From lower middle-class who cannot fend; <br>The corrupt society won’t mend its ways; <br>But God will ultimately them defend.<br> <br>How can the world allow such unfairness, <br>When God is truth and dispels all darkness?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371906" data-title="Sonnet: The Downtrodden Women de John Celes" data-description="Just skeletal figures, white-saree clad! Wind-carried, frail beings that hardly walk; They hurry ’cause ’tis late with weather bad; Their mouths are stiff: ’tis better they don’t talk! If not for this job, they will surely starve! Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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