Poetry: In Memory of A Girl
(By Rashi Gupta: School of Language, Sharda University)
I’m not a poet I’m human being
You ask me to write poetry
When I don’t see poetry around
You ask me to read poetry
When I don’t hear poetry from people surround
How can I lie How can I speak
Something I don’t feel: Something I don’t imbibe
How can I talk of beauty?
When everything is ugly around
I’m not talking politics
It’s a matter of justice
It’s mere question of human life
When girls are not seen as God creation
But as product of sexual enzymes
When I see feminist fight
I see the insecurity behind
There must be solution for this
For nothing is impossible I think
You all have to bring
The answer that I’m unable to sing
Don’t take it as a poem
These are the words that rhyme
I’ve not spoken of fantasy
Or talked about critic paradise
It’s an ugly fact that girls survive
Why is the girl deprived of human rights?
She is not animal she is part of mankind
Victim of lust captivated by ugly mind
I don’t have the answer
But girls can’t accept this brutal attack
I ask you gentleman
If I do poetry
Won’t it be lie?
You ask me to do something in which I don’t believe
It’s a big compromise
It’s an insult of creative mind
There s pain I’m not vain
It is sad because it is a bitter fact
It’s not cultural satire
It’s a social problem
Unable to sing songs that had died
Once a poet now more worried about human life
