Brain Injury Save Her From Further Suffering

Karuna, a beautiful nurse with a mother’s heart Used to take minute care of patients in her ward In a Mumbai hospital Her services to the patients befitting her name Were full of compassion: All on a sudden as she was changing her uniform At the end of the night shift She was brutally attacked by a sweeper Who was rebuked by her during the night orally For negligence in his duty which she forgot as usual As the wont of all who directs a menial casually She was raped and sodomized so brutally That she was paralyzed, left in a vegetative state To be discovered lying in a pool of blood Without a vision, without a word This happened in 1973 since when she remained Brain-injured, blind, deaf and dumb Living still in the new millennium All appeals for Euthanasia on her behalf Were rejected by the court For the sake of keeping the sanctity of Law She remained in the same hospital A cynosure of all her colleagues And of all the doctors then and thereafter. She was a nubile ready to be married in a week’s time To her lover who would adore such an exquisite flower But instead of him she was force-loved by the inhuman brute Virtually killing her up to her root Though brain injury must have reduced her suffering utmost For such an entity with every aspect of a living being lost It’s immaterial how long she lived After what she had become Receiving utmost cruelty in return For her love and sympathy for the patients From a rare unnameable fiend