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| Pranab Ghosh |
Tamanna: A Protest Poem
(A poem in protest of an preventable loss of a Class-IV girl child following violence that erupted in a victory march, celebrating the win of ruling party in a recently-held by-election in the Nadia district of West Bengal, India.)
The sky's gray...
The islands appear and disappear
Carrying the weight of our aspirations!
Nine springs ago
A dream was born...
A floating cloud-island
Amidst blue-gray sky...
Sometime in September, perhaps.
Was it springtime then?
The hearts of some, whose aspirations fructified, confirmed...
It's spring!
It's spring!
It's spring!
Last evening the cloud-girl with all her angelic looks and princess like locks flowing over her shoulders disappeared, hit by hate of revellers, who were celebrating ‘election victory’
There was the sudden cloudburst...
A bolt from the blue
The moist interior of the cloud-islet and all accompanying aspirations died...
In a bat of the eyelid...
‘I found my left side burning...
Then I found Tamanna, lying on the ground...”! A mother lamented.
Nine young years were covered in blood...
Life vowed before
Taking a final bow
As ugly victory
Marched through...
A death walk, like drunken moonwalk... perhaps, that no fans wanted to replicate...
No copycatting
No ‘hullaballoo’
Please...
Only a sigh piercing the hearts
Of the casual onlookers,
Who thought of nothing so gory
As they gathered in front of their homes, watching the ‘victory March!
Their Tamanna dead
They were determined to tread an avenging alley
That’ll bring new rain
On the perched land
Cracking up like bruised lower lip of a seventy-plus,
Who once was a beauty to behold!
Let justice win
Let the evil fall
Once and for all!
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