Pandora

What did she ever do wrong?

What was she to know?

Death, destruction, debilitation -

Violence known and unknown-

No, she was all too convenient to blame

For what was she but a silly girl

Who got a bit curious

A girl must not falter

A pretty box and a mystery

She would keep it safe and closed

No one believed she would dare

And yet alas! She did.

The age old credence

The assumption of naive innocence

Curiosity killed the cat

And she never intended any of that.

It is a familiar thing to blame it on the past

Even easier to keep on punishing her kind

But she never forgets 

And opens it sometimes 

To prove that she holds the power 

To remind history again and again.

-Aiswarya Vijayan