The country rolls on to its Republic Day,
Its youth feels the pinch, the pain,
Screams, cries, shouts and the anger,
Everything has been forgotten,
Guess, everything went in vain…
The one with a calling,
Had to go,
The grief and the trauma,
Can never be shared,
It bites only the sufferer,
Only the ones related know…
The task remains unachieved,
We’re miles away from walking our pledge, our oath,
What isn’t enough are two days of rebellion,
Two days of emotional uproar,
We’re dealing with insensitive bricks,
Burnt over ages of gender bias,
Paved in a man’s world,
Dried in the heat of arrogance towards the opposite sex,
Now, unable to distinguish respect from disrespect,
We need to voice out together,
The sounds we made are not enough, we need more…
Who are we protecting? I do not know,
Shall we feed monsters for twenty years in our jails?
If we do not possess the right to snatch a life,
They also do not possess the right to rape,
Treading on the same lines of our crippled law,
That is all the honor for our women that we preserve,
That is all we still think they deserve,
Soon, the kid with fangs shall walk free,
We’ll let the baby tyrannosaurus have another chance,
We’ll grow vampires, let them feast,
For fine opium, we shall water those poppy seeds,
Nourish them in our soil,
And, I’m sure the disease shall spread,
I’m sure there’ll be more to cry for,
There’ll be more for us to see…
Debaroon’2013
Penned so beautifully. It is entirely relevant with a true appeal.
I have so much respect for you, again a stunning and incredible insight into a culture I can only imagine. You are a truly beautiful soul.
Not likely. More men are aware that their rep has been brutally bashed in everywhere.Men more then women have a crisis of faith and it needs to cure too.
A beautiful poem and a very scary baby.
Your stark words shed light through a hidden window…beautifully and so painfully, too. My heart goes out to your own, poet.
Poignant thoughts!
beautifully written, you have such a strong voice.
I have gone once again through this masterpiece of yours. I fully endorse your poem containing “We need to voice out together”. I think we can do it.
Oh come on buddy, don’t adjectivise my post like dat…it doesnt have to be a masterpiece, I all intend to is put my word across…nevertheless, thankyou:)
amazing poem debaroon, somewhere down the line you said what i want to say again and again, why have we forgotten that innocent people too had a right to live with peace and dignity? we feel pain for criminals but forget their innocent, hapless victims.
one of my friends said about a very interesting solution, i think it can be a very useful one in countries like india, chemically neutering those who cant control themselves.
The govt along with the verma panel.is against death n chemical castration.as per the news….so u see….:(
i am not a big supporter of death, but saving the victims/ probable victims is my hope/prayer/goal too.
in a corrupted country like ours its really tough to vow that the man hanged is actually culprit.