Poetry: In Memory of A Girl

(By Rashi Gupta: School of Language, Sharda University)

 

I’m not a poet I’m human being

You ask me to write poetry

When I don’t see poetry around

You ask me to read poetry

When I don’t hear poetry from people surround

How can I lie How can I speak

Something I don’t feel: Something I don’t imbibe

How can I talk of beauty?

When everything is ugly around

I’m not talking politics

It’s a matter of justice

It’s mere question of human life

When girls are not seen as God creation

But as product of sexual enzymes

When I see feminist fight

I see the insecurity behind

There must be solution for this

For nothing is impossible I think

You all have to bring

The answer that I’m unable to sing

Don’t take it as a poem

These are the words that rhyme

I’ve not spoken of fantasy

Or talked about critic paradise

It’s an ugly fact that girls survive

Why is the girl deprived of human rights?

She is not animal she is part of mankind

Victim of lust captivated by ugly mind

I don’t have the answer

But girls can’t accept this brutal attack

I ask you gentleman

If I do poetry

Won’t it be lie?

You ask me to do something in which I don’t believe

It’s a big compromise

It’s an insult of creative mind

There s pain I’m not vain

It is sad because it is a bitter fact

It’s not cultural satire

It’s a social problem

Unable to sing songs that had died

Once a poet now more worried about human life