Cry with One Eye Open - Visitor's Poem
by Shamila Daluwatte
(Sri Lanka )
Oh dear sisters! Cry with one eye open Donât close your eyes See the world around you Eyes See together Sleep together Weep together But donât close your eyes Cry with one eye open When you weep Over your husbandâs death See from your opened weeping eye Whether in-laws have come To throw you out of the house To grab the properties that you own Push you to a widow house Push your children to misery Pull you to a burning fire To all my sisters India, Africa Where ever you are!!!!! Cry with one eye open
âCry with one eye openâ slogan was created in Southern Africa to safeguard property rights of widows. Women lost their properties upon the death of their husbands leaving widows in extreme poverty. This poem I created to support womenâs property rights campaign.
Shamila Daluwatte, Womenâs Right Attorney and an Activist
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