Chained Mother
(In a cellar of a country villager’s house there was a women held by a chain round her neck, almost naked even in sheer winter, in a state of trance, who bore and gave birth to eight children for the guy who bought her from some kidnappers... found out in modern China in 2022 AD!)
Do we not saddle the horse and harness the camel?
Do we not milk the cow and yoke the farm cattle？
Do we not for eggs and meat cage the chicken?
Do we not slaughter hogs and lambs for meat?
As if there has never been scalp-hunters
As if we’ve been vegans, never carnivore flesh-eaters
AS IF we have stopped slave trafficking for long
As if we never Abducted and raped women and children
As if there are never fettered prisoners in dungeons
It’s been the human practice throughout history
What is the harm? And whence the fuss in media
To find a woman chained in custody for childbearing?
Just suppose they are beasts , all the same
Assume they are unfeeling, beaten and tame
God never overburden his creatures
They would lose mind or die of torture
What is liberty? who invented it? why the cackle
Just because a woman is found chain-cooped?
Is tyranny only found with absolute power?
Yet this impoverished man rapes and a rives an innocent
Where do education and civilization come in?
This illiterate held a collegeate for sex slave for ten years
What raised the hell is the whole village as a gang
Who helped keep the watch-out of the captive for him
Their sympathy is with the man instead of the victim
If he did not buy the girl cheap from an abductor
He will remain single and heirless for life long
Now he has got eight children, all ignorant as he is
The irony is, at a time of strict one-child mandate
A miracle how and what he raised them up to
A bunch of cooped chicken or wild beasts?
But how can they be compared to beasts?
Even beasts and birds know love and court sweetly
How lower and lesser being than brutals
Not to have conscience, nor sense, nor shame
Yet it is a shame to the local government and cadres
To have poverty and sex-abuse amid an affluent society
The reporter was admonished by police, the story withdrawn
And wave after wave of news about the relapse of Pandemic
Washed the tragedy from headline to bottom
Where it lies docile , like the chained mother, for life.