White Tears Of Black Sorrow! Poem by PARTHA SARATHI PAUL

A piece of news on an electronic media
had a mild ripple in the shallow pool.
One young girl made a naive try to stop
her dark night existence and now in a hospital
she regrets her failure and rails at her lot.

The azure sky is fair and beautiful
but if it never gets black with dark clouds
there won`t be rains and crops and.....

The girl`s father is not in the frame of a mind
to understand a black diamond; all he wants
is white; diamond does not matter to him.

All that matters to him is the cover; the skin-
may it be overly looked after by Fair and lovely!
Daily abuses hurled by him at his daughter
have some nasty blisters on the feminine heart.

Ah! all the tear drops she sheds are whitish!
A black butt of thorny humiliation at home!

Her attempts may meet with success someday
but the stoic Earth bears with many mental fellows.
Most of the viewers as usual are ever damn callous.