K SHESHU BABU - POEMS

The writer from anywhere and everywhere when ponders on the question ' who am I?',receives some response in a lyric by the Assamese singer Bhupen Hazarika ....
" Ami ek jajabor' ( I am a gypsy ...)
Some of the writings including poems appeared in dissidentvoice.org, Leaves of Ink, Tuck Magazine, Virasam,  Velivada, countercurrents.org, counterview.org, counterview.net, sabrangindia.in , etc.
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 Tale difficult to tell
(Dedicated to rape victim of Hapur  in   U. P. India)

The child slowly creeped on the bed
Beside his thoughtful mother and said,
"Mama! Could I ask you something
As I am unable to understand anything?'
Mother sighed as usual and caressing
The little child was expectantly wondering
" what is it you want to know, dear,
Tell me your doubt, come near! "
"They say I am a fatherless child
Some say I had a father  and smiled
Others shower sympathetic words
And slowly walk away like lazy toads" 
"Don't worry! Dear little darling!
You're now just a little sapling ...
You will know , as you grow old
How to answer the vicious world !"
The child looked puzzled but couldn't insist
For a reply to the query growing like a cyst
In the little brain: absorbed in thoughts
Slept  unable to decipher her words of knots
Looking at the child in deep snoring slumber  She spoke softly in tears which she couldn't cumber
"How shall I tell you my tale bereft of shape
A sordid woeful experience of exploitation and rape"
"I was younger then, a toy in the hands of men
Who dragged me from the fields like lions grabbing their prey into den
The watered plants looked helpless with tears
The umber earth shook as if it were pricked by pears
" Seconds, minutes, hours and days passed
None rescued me as their crimes surpassed
All limits till they found nothing left in me
To satiate their desires like a honeybee "
"Time flowed like tumultuous waves
Leading my life into pitch dark caves
Some one, unknown, made me your mother
And left me alone! Your cruel father"
"Grow up! Soon dear! Learn about life
And understand my struggle and strife ..!"
She kissed the child with wet soft hands
Before going to bed with handstands
{Rape horror in UP's Hapur; Survivor raped by 16 men in 5 years, also had a kid from her rapist | Meerut News - Times of India,  13 May 2019, https:/ timesofindia.indiatimes.com}