The Sari

By Kumkum Ramchandani

From time immemorial

You have adorned royalty and handmaidens

Your graceful folds have slithered

On the bodies of billions of women

Older than civilization

Your mystery grows with time

Your beauty never dies

It only grows more luminous

Your undulating waves

enhance the luscious curvature

of the female form

rendering men speechless with desire

On a bride, a Bollywood beauty

Or the maidservant swobbing the floor

The fisherwoman cleaning her catch

You are equally ambiguous

Your secrets live on forever

Cotton, silk, satin or voile

Colourful, muted, embossed or vivid

It doesn't matter what form or hue

You never cease to beguile

You have transcended generations

Crossed the seas and continents

To spread your elusive charms

All over this besotted world

Oh sari! You are everlasting

You are eternal womanhood

You signify the love of mother for child

As she wipes tears with her pallu

Man's desire for his woman

As he unwinds the sinuous weaves

Oh sari of a million incarnations

Your flame will never die

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