Hi,
Its anger, frustration, and and hour of puking that has led me to my blog today. Suddenly I needed to give voice to the souls of many whose voices lay muffled beneath the layers of societal hierarchy, judicial pile, money & political power and much more….Here’s what they have to say
“The society is not safe for us they say, but who has made it unsafe?”
The spirit of a girl child says, ” I am no longer sad that my parent’s abandoned me, the world isn’t a good place anyway.”
I hear the voices, and they cry out…
“Mother, just let me stay within you
coz, I am safest here.
The world out there is darker than the night,
plagued by grotesque beings.
Let me reside here in this womb,
where love and care will forever be with me.
Don’t let them kill me because I am a girl child,
Don’t let them brand me as a burden in your life.
Don’t let them set their hungry eyes on me,
Don’t let them see me in their dirty minds.
Mother, just let me be..
And Let me stay within you.
Why did you leave me desolate and bereft,
why did you let me be hunted by the wolves.
It would be better if I was never born,
better if I was never born…
So, mother just take me back,
Back into your womb
and, let me stay within you until eternity or doom.”
This is the voice of Nirbhaya, Jisha, Aruna, Suzette many others who died in pain and humiliation; the voice of those rape victims who are forced to live as social outcasts for the crime committed by someone else.
According to Wikipedia, “In the National Crime Records Bureau 2013 annual report, 24,923 rape cases were reported across India in 2012. Out of these, 24,470 were committed by someone known to the victim (98% of the cases).”
When will this change? And this is not just in India, this is happening across the globe. Women and children are hurt and abused the most in warring countries. The refugees in search of shelter are molested, raped and even killed. In India women are killed, abused and tortured in the name of caste, sect, religion, family glory and what not…
The world has evolved technologically, but the people have turned savage. What is the use of education, societal norms and the hierarchy of governance when human life cannot be saved?
The beasts who commit such crime should pay for it, and death sentence is the easy way out for them. Hope that an appropriate punishment be devised for such heinous crimes.
Praying that the the souls of those who have died Rest In Peace, this is Satrangee Parachute drifting through dark clouds..