GOD WHO WON'T RESURRECT
Once again
the night of this sacred birth.
In the glass windows-
diagrams of snow.
Though proclaimed overzealously,
serpentine scroll news
spread burning into
fleeting life of memories
in the branches of visions,
hissing of the venomous
in the wings of hearing.
She who awaits death-on-cross
of troubled times
hanging on
the smouldering tip of life,
the sacred hunters
who sailed back,
being blessed by traitors,
into night revelries-
There are unproclaimed tragedies,
though of eternal origins,
that wail to air, weep to rain
and burn with the sun:
those remained untouchables
in the elite spheres of news-making.
One at the street corner
who served her flesh
till the night ended,
a new germination
inside the tribal lass
with unknown genetics,
body of an aboriginal
smelling ganja and harsh liquor.
Crossing royal highways,
valleys and mountains-
the forsaken tribal god,
denied of offerings.
For a people with no resurrection:
a god with no resurrection.
(The poem was written on the Christmas
eve, when the mass-rape victim in Delhi was struggling for her life
and news of the two Italian culprits making it easy to go back home
was creating public outrage. )