No women, no cry / No women, no cry / No women, no cry / No women, no cry.
- Bob Marley

O, Women!
You have danced the dance,
Pierced by arrows.
You have put your body
In flames.
O, Women!
Don't cry – it's only your tears,
You waste.
O, Women!
Don't sigh – and give up so easily.

Move away from barren spaces
Of melancholy.
Follow your basic instinct.
Don't give up.
Take a leap of faith.
Turn to smile from weeping.
O, Women!
No women, no cry.
O, Women!
No women, no cry.

From your heavy load,
Give me your cares.
I am a woman,
Feeling the feelings,
Of your heart of anguish.
I know you are ours.
O, Women!
No women, no cry.
O, Women!
No women, no cry.

For, All the women of the world

Dubai
2013

Geeta Chhabra