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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
Copyright ©
Aju Mukhopadhyay
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