A path of cans and nots

A path of cans and nots

You can't do that , pricked like a shard
For a little girl, it is far too hard

Are you absolutely sure to want to try?
You will just screw up your face and cry,

Imagine !! It isn't what ladies do
Just toe that unspoken line, couldn't you ?

Decades , we spend un-knotting the not from can't
In testing our independence, we won't tire, shan't

Every cannot we will examine, the negative shred
With every can , ourselves build,with faith, forge ahead

Now,the can ,as wild blooms ,will soon spread
With the nots we will pave the path we tread

The future will have their own battles too
But perhaps,more of the cans ,the nots , just a few

We will traverse the path of cans , nots, with grace
Obstacles overcome, challenges embrace.

--shubha