Draupadi

"Draupadi has five husbands - but she has none - She had five sons - and was never a mother … The pandavas have given Draupadi … No joy, no sense of victory No honour as wife No respect as mother - Only the status of a Queen … But they all have gone And I'm left with a lifeless jewel And an empty crown … My baffled motherhood Wrings its hands and strives to weep".

~Amrita Syam