Nirbhaya: The Fearless One

I was twenty three

Life was preceding smoothly

Physiotherapy student

And a friend well known

Enough for a

Middle class family

To run a home

Movie - Life of Pi

Change my life

The bus ride home

Turned out to be brutal

Those four drunk men

We're even worse

Than the terrorists

That Jammu and Kashmir

Might have encountered

Numbed senses and

Severe injuries

Thrown on the road

Like a used paper cup

Flown to Singapore

For treatment

But the doctors couldn't help

And my body couldn't tolerate

I had my four last breath

Hundreds protested

As hundreds suffered

Yes, I am Nirbhaya

The fearless one

And recently my soul

Was set free

When those four rapists

Were hanged in twenty twenty

Watched them struggle

Through the seven years

Brothers a pilot now

Family's happy

And justice is served to me.