Crying shame



( 2010)

She lies listless

On the hospital bed;

Dull grey eyes

Search for a flicker of life

On a dusty landscape.

Does she remember

How it all begun?

Darkness envelops

A hospital ward,

And a wolf crouches

Steadily towards its prey.

A sudden lounge;

The wolf has struck;

A man from the shadows

Who’s laid her low.

What’s this excruciating pain

Around the neck?

The fangs have tasted blood.

Her eyes dim,

The world closes out,

The claws of darkness descend;

And a benefactor

Is violated.

The wolf walks away

And joins the crowd.

Crying shame, “progressive” nation;

She lies there today.

Ages have passed;

She prays for death.

(For Aruna Shanbaug, Mumbai- the victim of a ghastly and brutal rape 37 years back, who is alive today in a vegetative state while her perpetrator roams free)

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