Crime And Punishment Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Hate the sin, not the sinner
And see, he is standing before
As a criminal
With a rope tied around
The waist,
The hands handcuffed
And the poor criminal going,
The world calling him a criminal
But he is not,
He is not
A criminal,
He is a man,
A man,
See you.

Let the world call him a criminal
But he is not,
He is not a criminal
And even if he is a criminal,
He could not behave it so,
Could not understand it,
Feel it
The consequence of his karma
For which he is suffering,
Reaping the bhoga,
Had he been a criminal,
He would not have kept
In isolation,
The eyes would not
Have turned red
And wept.

But the police keep bating,
Punishing
As for a breakthrough,
The pleader demanding money
As for fighting his case,
The file-mover
Moving not his files,
Just the case foes deferred
For the next hearing
And justice delayed to
The convict,
The accused and sinner,
The convict and culprit
Sick and spiritless
From his within.

The criminal from the dockyard
Hanging the head in shame
Staring blankly
Without anything in mind,
Without any hope in life,
Seeing pitilessly
Having lost faith in justice
And the world debating
His bloodshed and crime,
None with him,
All for money and power,
Those who made him turn into
A criminal
Otherwise he had been not,
A simple fellow was her
Got lured by the greed of money.

None taking him up,
All have abandoned him,
The police, judge and the public,
Accusing and cursing
But in the heart of his heart
He is not a criminal,
No, no, never a criminal
But a man,
A common man
After brad and butter,
Wanting to live a common life
But they implicated him
And he got lured by
The offer of a lump sum
And committed the crime
And hence is a criminal
Btu may I ask,
Are the judges blotless,
Are the lawyers whiter,
Are the police stainless,
Say you, say you,
Why are you silent?

N.B. Who’s For Justice Indeed and Where’s It? / Hate The Sin, Not The Sinner/ Have Compassion In Justice/ Don’t Be So Cruel in Your Judgement, Mark It That The Judge of The Judges Is Therefrom Seeing It All/ Crime and Punishment