Under a Banyan Tree
Under a Banyan tree
In a loud voice
she is shedding the tears of guilt
she is weeping before the crowd
The Chairman declared his verdict
That she is the convict
and has to pay fine for her guilt
against her chastity
None has taken her side:
who can deliver her justice,
to feed her two-month old hungry child
she bartered her chastity
Fifty rupees fine
and barred from the chaste society
Penniless she cried,
none to share her sorrow
The gracious chairman who fined her,
paid her fine and gave the warning
not to stoop so low
With loud claps for him
the gathering melted,
the helping hands of the chairman
pulled her crumpled hips
to his bed room to thrust on her the crime again!!
Copyright © Sakthee Ravichandran | Year Posted 2009
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