Rapine

Predator ready to hunt

Perfectly camouflaged

Stalking and ambushing his prey

Ready to pounce and devour her innocence.

Unable to comprehend his designs

She moves towards him

Lost in her fancy world

Unaware of her hunter.

Now she lies placid, tears streaming

Her soul torn apart.

Wanting to scream but her mouth dry.

Her body numbed.

A boiling cauldron of humans

Calling themselves civilized

But savage and wild

Slaves to their lust and desire.

Bio

Waheeda Hussain is a blogger and a bilingual poet from Jabalpur, India.  She is a Senior School teacher by profession (for more than twenty-three years) and has a passion for writing short stories and poetry. Her dream of social justice and equality for women reflects strongly in her poems; she believes that literature can play an important role in bringing awareness on issues like Domestic Violence and Female Foeticide. She has co-authored nine anthologies and her poems have been published in many ezines. She is an editor of bilingual anthology “Shajar Ke Chaon Tale- The Poets Scribbles’ and Brahmand an e. magazine.