𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚| 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 [𝑶𝒏-𝑮𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈]

Part 25: Rape

Rape.
It isn't much of a pleasure,
It's more like a torture.
It is no joke,
It is no meme,
It's a crime.

"Why did she wear her short-skirt? Did she forget about the eyes that stare and the hands that dare?"

Rape.
It didn't just happen to the short-skirt,
It also happened to the salwar and saree. 

"She shouldn't have gone out at night. Why couldn't she rather study to make her future bright?"

Rape.
It didn't just happen to the night-girl,
It also happened to the school-girl.

"She should stop going out and clubbing. Instead, just stay at home reading."

Rape.
It didn't just happen to the girl
Who went out and mingled.
It also happened to the girl
Who always stayed out- singled.

"Thirty isn't an age for marriage. To avoid those lustful eyes, you must have a husband by your side."

Rape.
It didn't just happen to the eighteen year old girl,
Who chose her career over marriage.
It also happened to the middle-aged woman
Who sacrificed her dreams,
Just for a marriage and then...her child's miscarriage.

"Staying in the footpaths makes it difficult to ignore those hands that beg to torture. Don't work at night, it's treacherous."

Rape.
It didn't just happen to the beggar at the street,
It also happened to the lady who worked at night,
Just to make ends meet.

"Oh my, look at that girl, look at how she's not exposing her body. It's better to wear a hijab, that exposes no part."

Rape.
It didn't just happen to the girl who wore her bikini,
It also happened to the girl who wore her hijab.

"Shh, don't go out. Even though you didn't want it to happen, you've been raped, touched by a guy with bad intentions. You're like the cursed girl now.. I'm sorry."

Dear society,
Don't hide the raped,
Don't make their lives an abode of the dead.
Fight for them,
Let them live.
Punish their vandals,
Punish the rapists,
Not the victim,
Not the raped.

~Ash.

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Rape won't stop. We can't change human minds. What we can do, is that we can support and comfort the raped and punish the rapists, instead of hiding the raped girls and ruining their futures. It's something they never wish for and it's unpredictable. It can happen to anyone, you, me and literally any other girl.

Stop making the society dangerous and threatening. Stop treating every relationship between a guy and a girl as intimate. Instead of putting the rapists in jail for three years, hang them so that they understand the pain of dying. Jail- a dark, gloomy, four-walled room can't change the minds of rapists.

The type of dress a girl wears doesn't matter. The minds of people does. So, instead of teaching us how to dress 'properly' ever since we were born, teach those minds, eyes and hands how to behave and respect women. We girls want to be independent, not only when we grow older, but everyday. Shape the society in such a way where we can LIVE.

Recently, a poor 45 year old beggar was brutally raped and killed. What happened to the rapist? No identification, no punishment. Last year, a girl was raped by a gang and burnt alive. A woman watched it but said nothing. A few years back, an iron rod was shoved into a girl's vagina. Many years back, a Japanese girl was brutally raped and she died after 44 days of constant torture. What happened to her rapists? They changed their names and lived a happy life. Yeah, people, welcome to society where injustice isn't a crime.

That's it. That was my rant. There's a website called Rapey.to where people discuss about pedophilia and rapes etc. Everything discussed there is so sick! The link to the petition is in my message board. Please fill it up and help everyone take it down. Your help would mean a lot.

Anyways, tell me about the poem. After a long time, I wrote such a strong poem. Thoughts? 
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