This Senselessness Poem by Firoz Ahmed Ebrahim

This Senselessness



this senselessness
left her wasted
left me wanting
every tear she shed
discredits my morality
every drop of blood she spilled
demeans my mettle
her youthful spirit tyrannised
by a brutal beast
man
her tender body tortured
by a degenerate demon
man
her humiliation
is my disgrace
strangled to silence
by her veil of modesty
this senselessness
left her cold
hanging from a mango branch
this senselessness
left me ashamed
to be a
man

[Dedicated to Muriti and Pushpa of Karta, Uttar Pradesh, India]

Friday, January 23, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: sadness
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This poem was written on the 4 June 2014 after the rape and murder of Muriti and Pushpa in India in June 2014
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