Society is something of a catch-all phrase for organized humanity. It's just another word for people. And just as there can be evil in people, there can also be evil in society. And evil, in any of its myriad guises, can only bring us pain and sadness. This poem is in memory of 9 year girl child who was brutally raped and killed recently in a remote village in Kerala India. Her, innocent, feared face, screaming, haunting me day and night……and she is still crying with tiny stars and smirking moon……
Everywhere her screaming
There is pain in my heart for her.
I cannot soothe her,
I cannot be with her,
I want to share her pain
ease her suffering,
show her I care,
But she flew away
catching the tiny star
And everywhere her screaming
Why must it be so hard?
Why should it happen with?
The unanswerable questions
ring out to the stars,
and only silence replies
with it's smooth sound.
But she flew away
Catching the tiny stars
And everywhere her screaming
I scream with anguish,
and the pain of helplessness.
"There must be something
I can do, mustn’t there?"
But she flew away
Catching the tiny stars
And everywhere her screaming
Her whimpered query
hangs in the air,
"please, please, please.. no ?".
and only silence replies
with it's smooth sound.
But she flew awa
Catching the tiny stars
And everywhere her screaming
Only silence and time remain,
one a comforter, the other, a healer.
So why am I not comforted,
or healed of my pain,
and only her misery remains?
and only silence replies
with it's smooth sound.
But she flew away
Catching the tiny stars
And everywhere her screaming
I am in mute, feelings flows,
Tears flooded, heart leap up
Throat dried up, no sounding elegy
A last I fade and die,
And fly away with her to the other end,
To wipe out tears showing her tiny stars, and smirking moon,
and I scream again become
Soundless elegy on faded bud and only silence replies
with it's smooth sound.
But she flew away
Catching the tiny stars
And everywhere her screaming
-Azad Tirur
myriad guise – countless appearance