Monday, October 4, 2021

It Rained a Lot That Day


It rained a lot that day,
that day, when another Draupadi cried for 
the hundredth time
for her disrobed dignity,
when another Sita cried for 
the thousandth time 
for her crushed confidence
and when another 
Lucy
cried for the millionth time 
upon hearing that locker room guffaw
about her hem line, 
her neck line
her walk
her talk

it rained so hard
deafening the forests 
and the cities and
the villages

and then when it stopped to rain,
they didn't know where to sow a seed 
a single seed
for by now 
the earth had dried 
the clouds had blown away
and only dry, brittle and forever parched earth remained,
to burn in it's own hell.

 

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