Silence please.
The House is in order.
Under the dome
Green carpets
soaked in blood
echo barbaric silence.
Complicits walk hand in hand
Goons are masters
for they rule the living and the dead.
Governance a slave.
The deity, an accomplice
rides waves of black coats
and saffron fallen leaves.
Paradise mourns humanity.
The Valley laments.
Caressing the corpse
wailing willows lament…
‘Barbarians?
Do you do this
to your daughters?’

 

12 April 2018
on the abduction, rape by multiple people, and murder of an
8 year old girl inside a devsthanam (temple) in Kathua, Jammu, India.