The Girl-Child Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Girl-child, are you born with a poor lot of yours,
The family taking you as a burden,
A debt,
Right from your birth,
A poor child of poor India?

Are you for to be raped and dumped elsewhere,
How the men,
How the laws of the land
And the laws implicating it all?

The rapists after having done,
Dump them as for hiding their incestuous act,
Where to hide the sin,
The stars have seen,
The walls too have heard,
Murder them.

The court is not for imprisoning,
Giving sentences to convicts and culprits
And the lawyers for their profession
And the police for taking out,
As the case studies need us to go into
Sociologically, psychologically and legally.

After the rapes, the victims should not be left alone,
As they need to be counselled psychologically,
The media should not be allowed to be closer to
As for making it a news items merely,
Come, but see them from the humanitarian point of view.

Try to give consolation,
Bring about a reconciliation,
Help her in the times of distress and depression,
Aggravate it not,
Try to be with her,
Show maximum sympathy to her.

What has happened to you,
Nothing has,
You take courage and stand on your feet,
The whole nation is behind you
And as thus stand by her
In the difficult moments of her life.