Darkness at Dawn

by Dr. Ratan Bhattacharjee



The girl cried in the bus, Is there anybody there to save me? Is there anybody there to save me? Is there anybody there to save me? This city is no longer hers. It was only yesterday that we all told her Dear Doctor, this city is yours You take care of this city. She was a doctor, she saved the people, She tried her best to heal the people No one came to save her when she was ruined. Nobody opened the door to see what happened in the bus What the driver did and his four beastly friends Only yesterday we told her this city belonged to her The roads of the city, the highway lanes charge upon us. They want to assassinate us. We wanted to nab the culprit We wanted inferno to be let loose on him As if it were a hound tearing his flesh. But nothing really happened, nor is it likely to happen The sun did not rise in the East There was darkness at noon: The criminal died today. The beast died today, The nation failed to take the rapist to gallows.

Image © Tuhin Kumar Datta

11-Mar-2013

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Comments on this Poem

Suparb. Dont finish your duty by liking this poem. Raise Voice.

Santanu Banerjee
21-Mar-2013 06:35 AM

sir, jst love to read your poems.. Another masterpiece..

kamal sarkar
19-Mar-2013 10:41 AM

Thanks a lot for your comment Swanti... your r however not right to say that he killed death. Death killed the criminal

Dr.Ratan Bhattacharjee
13-Mar-2013 09:29 AM

ram singh killed the death..and died before the death could come to him....coward? or what? could have fought for the death?
ha! panic-stricken culprit died b4 the death.

swanti
12-Mar-2013 11:49 AM