Can I menstruate?
Can I feel the cramps and the pain?
Can I have the mood swings?
Can I have the dullness on my face?
Can I make excuses for not working?
Can I check my pads again and again
in School and College washroom?
Can I not get my pads wrapped in black polythene bags?
Can I fast despite bleeding?
Can I pray despite bleeding?
Can I ask my papa and my brother
to buy some pads for me?
Can I cook while bleeding?
I never menstruate
I am a boy
but I can empathise
when my mother
and my sister
and my wife
and my daughter menstruate.
Do I feel pain at the first bleeding?
Do I get happy about being an adult?
Do I feel pain during my last bleeding?
Do I get sad about being old?
Menstruation is a bliss.
It gives what life gives:
Pain and Pleasure
Happiness and distress
Gloom and Bloom.
Can I ask God why only women have this blessing?