Laid in a basket, <br />She carried the fish, <br />For selling fom door to door, <br />Making a few bucks <br />A day, she toiled <br />Walked a long way <br />And back home, <br />To her children and drunken <br />Husband, who beat her up <br />And took all the money <br />she earned the full day, <br />She lived with money <br />Given outside to another <br />Woman, sent her children <br />To school for a little <br />Studies, to become <br />Full human beings, <br />Be away from her harassing <br />Husband, who worked <br />And drank all day long, <br />She trode on taking <br />All the abuses, smell of fish, <br />To make a living going <br />For herself and children. <br /> <br />Ravikiran Arakkal<br /><br />RAVIKIRAN ARAKKAL<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fisher-woman/
