THE FACELESS



He is faceless,
Dark, shameless,
Walking anywhere,
Everywhere,
Touching,
And groping,
Here there,
Adding to my discomfiture,
He can overtake,
Cow me down and dominate,
Hit me 
And beat me,
Force himself on me,
The demon's shadow he 
Is, can brutalise me in a bus,
Causing bruises and cuts,
Can molest me in a crowd,
Can fondle me without my consent,when no one is around,
Can throw me out in the cold bare bodied,
Shivering, bleeding and naked,
He can insert in me bottles,
Rods, sticks, candles,
Whatever pleases his satanic mind,
To all my prayers he is blind,
He is deaf to my cries,
A demonic gleam in his eyes,
He does not care whether I am a teenager,
A child, or a youngster,
I am just a mean to satisfy
His sadistic pleasure and justify
His false manhood,
As he shames the entire womanhood.


Of him beware,
He may catch you around the corner,
He can be a friend,
With whom you have times spend,
A relative or uncle,
Who must have held you in his arms as a small bundle,
A complete stranger,
Or even your immediate neighbour,
Educated,
Or uneducated,
Either poor or rich,
He will never ever hitch
To defame you,
Kill your soul and finish you; 
Learn to see these faceless,
Speak up against them, pray do not remain speechless,
They have paralysed,
Many a life,
Let us now take off their mask,
Take them to tasks,
Pull down their shrouds,
Show their real faces to all around,
Shame them for their deeds outrageous,
Try them for their shameful audaciousness,
Perpetrator of gruesome acts, cruel, sly and nameless,
The shrouded figure, faceless!

©Madhumita

This is written to warn against all the molesters, rapists, brutalisers roaming around faceless and spoiling many a lives in my country and all around the world.