R G Kar Medical Tragedy

By Bhavini Gupta

Stethoscope around her neck

gloves on her hands 

The knowledge of countless pages of anatomy

The lives she planned to save 

Were outnumbered when hyenas climbed up the forte

Massacring dreams bloody on her white coat 

On her way to becoming a savior 

Eyes firing with a passion burning bright

Glasses clean , a ponytail high 

A long day of work 

Ending with a sigh 

A hero in making was murdered 

A girl was raped   

Humanity failed that night

When the truth was draped 

That 8 years of cramming 

Those 36 hour shifts 

If ugly death was what was written for her 

Then better would have been 

if with a scalpel she had slit her wrists

Those glasses always so clean

 jammed into her now tired eyes

A bloody face

A defiled mind 

The evidence of a crime that we couldn’t find 

We live to promote equality , liberty and ideas so great 

Where were we when this child was being raped ?

We promise security, support and justice for all 

Ask her parents and they’ll say “its a fraud” 

She isn’t with us anymore 

Her tombstone will soon be covered with dirt

We will forget about her 

Dismissing the purpose of her birth 

And running free we shall find

pack of hyenas on this land

And running free we shall find 

The ugly creation of man .

By Bhavini Gupta