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A Cry for Justice: Womanhood’s Dignity Under Siege

A protest poem by Dr Molly on the Manipur rape cases wherein womanhood’s dignity is under siege as society grapples with imbalances and atrocities—an exclusive for Different Truths.

Battling with  
the turn of events
waking up
in the odd hours
of the night, sleepless,
mind the fugitive
wanders, wonders!
 
What is all this about?
world brewing,
bloating up
with bubbles concocted in proportions different...
 
On one side, uncertainty falls
Fate, with its uneven balance of pleasure and pain...
 
on the other, manmade
atrocities,
mounting up
picking up a wild, frenzied pace...
 
women targetted
as the soft puppet
to play with...
 
molestations, 
rapes, a wild exhibition of their denuded self, greedy hands
groping for dignity
of womanhood,
proceed in full fury...
 
Women, the creative
principle of life,
the avatars of mother nature...
 
to save face in front of the world
the view, the venue strategically cut off
from a net connection...
 
it’s all about
seeing and not seeing
by the powers at the helm...
 
tall claims of a nation soaring up in justice, peace
pick up fanfare on another side...
 
What futile efforts
mankind indulges in
in
meddling with a life
so short and sweet...
 
Seldom do we realise,
we are walking on peripheries, so slippery
on the edges of a crevice that yawns...

Picture design by Anumita Roy

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Dr. Molly Joseph
Dr Molly Joseph, a bilingual professor and poet from Kerala, has published 26 books, including 18 poems, two novels, and two storybooks for children. She has edited "A Handbook of Contemporary Ethics" and works for values, global peace, and togetherness. Dr Joseph has won national and international accolades and represents India at SAARC and FOSWAL literature meets. She believes in the power of the word and writes boldly on contemporary matters.

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