Untouchable
POETRY FORMAT, 13 Feb 2023
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service
Wretched Caste System
Beaten ,broken and bruised,she cries out for help.
Who will hear her?
She is a D A L I T
This caste system created by humans
To divide,destruct and destroy…
Human beings debased like dead animals.
Treated like excrement.
You hit her and it hurt.
How can you be so evil?
Who are you to caste a stone?
Who are you to judge?
You call her an untouchable !
Your sin is unforgivable your heart is perverted
Your thoughts completely inverted
Call her a D A L I T.
Who made you so important?
A system?
You are devoid of all wisdom.
She feels bitter rage
You call her a D A L I T.
You’re a monster with no soul
Pure hate,pure venom you have lost control
you give it like a dose ofletal poison
Wretched system man sinfully created.
People dictated…
A system
D A L I T they hated!
So cast your stone.
She is NOT a alone.
There is a Karmic law
With claws and a jaw.
Maybe then you will learn about your fatal flaw.
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Dr Usha Roopnarain – Former parliamentarian in the National Assembly of South Africa, social activist and passionate about human rights and gender equality.
Tags: Caste System, Cultural violence, Culture of Violence, Direct violence, Domestic violence, Gender Based Violence-GBV, India, Poetry, Structural violence
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