Notes About The Poem
In Nepal, educated men and women are trying to do away with the practice of forcing young women and girls into a dark hut by themselves during their menstruation periods. Many of these young women have been attacked and killed by tigers, raped by men, for they are alone and unprotected. Some have died from being too cold, others have died from snake bite in these small stifling huts, away from their families. Some as young as twelve and fourteen have been found dead. Many educated people are burning these huts and outlawing this practice of forcing these girls into insolation when they are deemed "unclean".
This is a video explaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll44D578jsY
Nepal's Daughters Isolation Huts
Asphyxiated and found dead
Raped and found dead
Unsure what happened, and found dead
Nepali women found dead
Snake bitten and found dead
Eaten by tigers and found dead
Left in a small dark menstrual hut
And found dead
Nepali women found dead
Shunned and labelled unclean
Ostracized for the wonderful way
God has insured they can have babies
Asphyxiated, raped, snaked, and frozen
And found dead. Someone is not right in the head.
These huts should be torn up and spit out.
Please, people, permanently get these women out!
Copyright © Caren Krutsinger | Year Posted 2019
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