I Saw The Jarwa Maidens Smiling Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

I saw the Jarwa maidens smiling
Into the forests of Andaman islands
With the slightest floral, leafy cover
Telling of breast to breast living
With the cosmos.

I saw them smiling, viewed with suspense
And fear the aboriginals
Speaking a dialect,
Hunting, gathering food
From sea beaches and forests
With bows and arrows.

The black maidens primitive,
African, Negrite
Telling of nativity and roots, race and ethnicity,
Shipwrecks and forlorn brothers and sisters
Taking back to an unbroken bonding with.