Wednesday, October 19, 2022

The Sanskari Rapists

 

                        A Poem


The Sanskari Rapists and the Raped

 

They raped, yet they did not

even if they did, as they certainly did,

they didn’t.

They murdered, yet they didn’t.

They smashed a child to the ground, yet they didn’t.

That’s why they were garlanded

feted with sweets, the sacred ladoos

by their men. By their women too!

How can the Sanskari brahmins be guilty?

What they do is beyond reproach.

Their deeds are not subject to human scrutiny.

The courts had no right to arraign them.

That’s why the celebrations

to honour their missionary heroism.

 

What about the raped?

Of what consequence

is the life and honour of a woman of the other race!

And her pain

that has pierced her innards

each cell, each pour and settled there

like pulsating, stabbing poison

that doesn’t let her live, let her die

let her forget!

 

The silence all around tells all.

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