Sudipta Mishra, Puri, 14 January 2023
Draupadi and Sita are still alive!!!
They are living in the deep dark silence;
Deeply buried in their burnt damage…
Can’t you acknowledge?
With intense scars, they laugh with pretense!
With the purple-blue reddish-brown face of ignorance
They stand and mock our hypocrisy!!!
Can’t you notice them?
They are none other than the dead carcasses whom we have silently suppressed!!
Under the backyard of imperial houses!!
Still, they are satirically present!!
In the naked eyes of molesters, they suffered to gasp…
Yet, they struggle to raise their voices with rage…
They yearn for the least kindness…
Even though they are deprived of righteousness…
Can you glance at their years of trauma?
Still, they are looted and pushed, dragged into hell…
Yet, they disguise their anguish behind a towering silky veil…
Can’t you see them??
