India, Jan. 3 -- Trigger Warning: mention of rape, child abuse, incest, trauma.

I

Ten years of imprisonment,

a petty sum for a fine!

Death sentences in some "special cases",

the rest are all treated the same in a line.

Proofs and witnesses are bought with coins that shine.

The victim girl remains with none

who will call her: "mine".

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You called it justice!

And considered it right.

But what about the crime of denial of rights?

How could that rape be justified?

II

In the court of law, she is pried

with the questions of her trauma, out loud.

Once she was raped in seclusion,

now endlessly robe-robbed in the crowd.

Her match now will never be found;

although her crimi...