I am relieved :
It was not me -
Who took a ride to Hell
On a curtained ,White Bus
with red seats
and a Torture cabin
where lurked
Beasts wearing
masks of men .
Where the dirty ,misshapen hag
of Evil Opportunity was making out
in the dark - with the malevolently grinning
frustrated, misogynist Male psyche
It was a Dark jungle -well lit
where the red lights eerily blinked
on the triptych of Vishnu-Siva -Ganesh
and a shimmery ,pompooned banner said:
Jai mata di.
She stood near those Paper Gods
and watched her Body
as it lay -
in a Gigantic spasm
of Epileptic Grief
She heard the choking
of muffled cries
as the Diseased
uncorked their Dementia.
Every helpless thrashing dimmed :
she saw a baby dear
set upon by a pack of hungry Jackals.
She saw a
her body
hanging on to life
as she died again and again.
I was relieved it was not me:
Between the headline masts-
But it could have been me or mine
It could have been you or yours.
And the Ghost of the Unspeakable
is here to haunt us all
for a long -long time.
It was not me -
Who took a ride to Hell
On a curtained ,White Bus
with red seats
and a Torture cabin
where lurked
Beasts wearing
masks of men .
Where the dirty ,misshapen hag
of Evil Opportunity was making out
in the dark - with the malevolently grinning
frustrated, misogynist Male psyche
It was a Dark jungle -well lit
where the red lights eerily blinked
on the triptych of Vishnu-Siva -Ganesh
and a shimmery ,pompooned banner said:
Jai mata di.
She stood near those Paper Gods
and watched her Body
as it lay -
in a Gigantic spasm
of Epileptic Grief
She heard the choking
of muffled cries
as the Diseased
uncorked their Dementia.
Every helpless thrashing dimmed :
she saw a baby dear
set upon by a pack of hungry Jackals.
She saw a
her body
hanging on to life
as she died again and again.
I was relieved it was not me:
Between the headline masts-
But it could have been me or mine
It could have been you or yours.
And the Ghost of the Unspeakable
is here to haunt us all
for a long -long time.