A Sad Suicide Of A Rape Victim Poem by Binayakumar Mohanty

Once again
you proved your impotence
You kept mum
left the culprit go
scot free
proved his innocence
the rape victim
commits suicide.

With the minor school girl
gang raped
by the cobra commando
deployed in the valley
for restoring peace
to safeguard democracy
you asked her
not to disclose the identity
of the culprits
for it would unmask
your honesty
once again she was raped
not getting justice
doctors fabricating
report that
nothing happened to her
she was lying
to blame the democracy.

With your weapons of democracy
pressed her to silence
torturing her to die
to destroy evidence
to save your clean image.

She commits suicide
not of shame
not of pain
for the brutes looted her virginity
before she could see
the virginity of life
enjoy the world so beautiful
she was raped again and again.
You the poets, media men
columnists and photographers
political thinkers and artists
claiming human
seeking clue from her polluted body
she finds nobody standing by her hard times.
What see feels is the democracy is
raped brutally
you kept mum
fabricating
another story
to prove the innocence
of the rapist
again you proved your impotence
to save her
committing suicide
for she could not see you impotent
and tolerate no more democracy raped.