In memory of the 2,000 men, women and children killed in the state-led genocide in Gujarat in 2002 and the 2,00,000 who lost their homes and dignity.
I should be ashamed
of raising issues that divide
– they say.
But how can I forget
those they killed
mutilated and those they left
still hiding their nakedness.
I will shout from the rooftops
make memorials of poems
I will draw from the eyes
of the killers
not blood, but tears.
Archived from Communalism Combat, February 2009, Year 15, No.137 - Voices
Courtesy: http://indianmuslims.in/two-poems-on-gujarat-violence/