One More Light

We were travelling by train one day, Don’t know if it was the winds carrying us along or we clinging to it, If it was Sunlight filling our cabin or we patching a darkness in the summery day, Or maybe if it was us running with the farms or they chasing us. But, We were all together- All of us, Differentiated, segregated into different seats based on our incomes, Me, in the highest class, the migrant who had crossed me, in the lower But we were together All of us We drank the water from the same mineral bottle Mine a new one, his epochs old. But we were all together. One time he tried getting into our compartment To just let his 3 year old sick one be relieved from the scorching heat And was brutally discharged And one time I almost missed the train on one station And he lent his hand out to me. We had seats vacant to accommodate 3 people at least And they couldn’t even have a place to sit for themselves Still he lent his hand out to me To he...

"Rape me too," she said, Like you did, to that 5-year-old, Who had just learnt the word beauty; Well, you showed her what the beauty of the world is, She was 5 years old when you did that, I'm 24. Why don't you do it to me? Just because I'm your sister doesn't make a difference, does it? Because even she is a sister, a daughter, a fairy for her dad. You did that to her, Do it to me as well What's stopping you? If her screams of help through the pain couldn't stop you, What will, What is stopping you? Just do it and leave, Just like you did to her. Just because she was a 5 year old didn't give you the right to do anything,  Nothing ever will. But just do it. I'm your sister right, do it to me as well, ruin my life too, Like you ruined hers. She had just started taking her first steps,  And you took the worst ones with her. Just rape me, brother. Well, You can't. Because I'm strong, Like every woman out there, Every woman who will stand u...