Wolves

by Rajender Krishan

Lurking restlessly
like the wolves in heat
the rapists
ganged to hunt

Deifying the devil
with anger, marauding rage
and the brutal power of violence
eroticizing debauchery
mocking law and order

Terrorized, tortured and devastated
with coercive sexual assaults
inflicting pain
traumatizing the prey

How will the cadaverous
reclaim
what was stolen
in the gruesome ordeal?

Alas!
At the nadir of heinous impulses
the precept of culpability
grows lifeless
in a deteriorating social order

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18-Dec-2012

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Comments on this Poem

This one had power and punch. Precise and timely too. One of your best .

pgrnair
19-Dec-2012 14:11 PM

very well written poem, only humanity is worse than wolves

janoscarhansen
19-Dec-2012 09:08 AM

Gang rapists - a collection of impotents - carrying a stigma of individually failed manhood.

Pawan Kumar
19-Dec-2012 09:05 AM

"the rapists
ganged to hunt" - poetic indeed.

BS Murthy
19-Dec-2012 08:25 AM

The focus of the poem in the last two paragraphs is concerned, blunt and clear. Well done Rajender!

Roy D'Costa
19-Dec-2012 08:19 AM

19 December 2012
TO: Mr. Rajrnder Krishan

Ms. Padmaja Iyengar & Mr. Dipanker Dasgupta have hit the nail on the head by upgrading the wolves above the rapists.
Rajat Das Gupta

Rajat Das Gupta
19-Dec-2012 06:46 AM

They deserve Capital Punishment! NOTHING LESS THAN THAT.

ananyaguha
19-Dec-2012 04:18 AM

It'd be an insult of the wolves to compare the rapists with them! Everyone knows what to expect from a pack of wolves! But the rapists....?

Padmaja Iyengar
19-Dec-2012 03:15 AM

Do wolves rape? Are they capable of debauchery? They seem like an innocent lot compared to humans! Is society doomed? I recall your other composition on the killing of kindergarten kids. Where are we headed? A dilemma that a pack of wolves don't suffer from.

dipankardasgupta
19-Dec-2012 01:24 AM

Really Rajendraji, I am of the opinion that its high time, rapists are given capital punishment or shoot at sight, without any law proceedings.

I am not trying to be harsh, only saying that, it is high time! Did we not take strong steps towards drugs in Indonesia/Singapore?

In Delhi/UP/ Haryana, it is almost an epidemic.

Julia

Julia Dutta
19-Dec-2012 00:02 AM

The Capital of the Nation is also the Rape Capital of the country. Such acts keep occurring with such regularity. 'Governance' has become a joke.

Subhajit Ghosh
18-Dec-2012 23:22 PM

Statelessness in the state capital. It calls for capital punishment to be put in place against such wretched wolves. Your out-pour is apt, fluid and quick; and pray, so should be the change in laws.

Seshu Chamarty
18-Dec-2012 23:19 PM

Very apt! Poet---as a social commentator. Needs more such questioning poetry.

Sunil Sharma
18-Dec-2012 21:59 PM

I concur with your explicitly expressed (probably even more intense than what is expressed) spirit.

SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
18-Dec-2012 21:44 PM

The culprits deserve the hottest inferno imaginable! grrrrrrr.....

Pavalamani Pragasam
18-Dec-2012 21:18 PM

touchy.

daniel mazgaonkar
18-Dec-2012 21:09 PM