avatarKallol Mazumdar

Summary

The web content is a poignant poem and accompanying explanation that delve into the grim realities of human trafficking, oppression, and the loss of human dignity, reflecting on the societal and ethical implications of these issues.

Abstract

The poem presents a harrowing narrative of individuals trapped in modern-day slavery, depicted through vivid imagery of physical and psychological torment. It touches on the themes of exploitation, the commodification of human life, and the societal structures that perpetuate such injustices. The accompanying section, "Cosmic Context," provides insight into the poem's inspiration, drawing attention to the plight of impoverished and orphaned children who are particularly vulnerable to human trafficking. The author calls for introspection on the values of human dignity and self-respect, urging readers to consider the morality of such practices and their prevalence in the developing world.

Opinions

  • The author conveys a strong stance against the inhumane treatment of individuals in trafficking and slavery, emphasizing the need for societal change.
  • There is a clear condemnation of the perpetrators who profit from the exploitation of the vulnerable, referring to them as "Evils with their masks and masquerades."
  • The poem suggests that the oppressors are themselves trapped in a cycle of hypocrisy and violence, as they "force someone to work and lurk for you."
  • The author implies that the societal acceptance of these practices is a form of temporal death for the victims, stripping them of their humanity and dignity.
  • The "Cosmic Context" section reflects the author's belief that the current state of affairs regarding human trafficking is far from just and requires a collective reassessment of human values.
  • The author expresses gratitude to the readers for engaging with the challenging subject matter, indicating a hope that the poem will provoke thought and potentially inspire action.

Palm lines erased, fingertips bloated, a broken hip, and blood clots everywhere

Someone’s watching the tentacles spreading, expanding xylos of thinking yet trapping someone in four walls

Credits: Gert Altmann, Pixabay

Slavery

Can you please stop the madness? A heinous horizontal grievance, divided by vertical lines of societal duties,

To slave or to not to slave, For demons and devils.

Evils with their masks and masquerades on, appear, disappear and catch beings bred in violence by their hair.

Lurking behind the shadows, like a silent whisperer in the meadows,

A strange cacophony overpowers the expanding unearthing atmosphere.

Stealing bodies, heavenly or otherwise, one packed in flesh and matter;

To hold in a sophisticated symmetrical musculature,

With hands so soft that a coarse needle can ooze out blood.

The farcical face is not meant to be trapped in a cage,

Pushed to havoc and harems, where people go in and out,

Frowned upon as the spaces display, yet the violence the faces play,

For slaving in sorting the pieces of fitting bones,

Perpetrators and Idolators, all catch the gaze towards bygones.

For they are irreversible in irreligion, for what concocted faiths they come from,

Credits: Lisa Runnels, Pixabay

Oppression

Willing to eat and still inflame their bellies, off of the flesh of poor malnourished bodies.

Carve the butter and grease out of the kids as their flesh has all of it often, like your potbelly, swirling like jelly.

The food you eat needs to be metabolized, or else they stick to your guts and bloat you up as you remain half euthanized.

For temporal death has already occurred for them, A dereliction to declare a ruse that glows,

For they own your grown nature to precipitously ravage the crown that someone wears, drag them out and out, spill out your reckless clout, make them squat, and take their crowns off.

In the figurative buff, you come with packed muscles, with the conditional hustle, and do all the painful and untactful things that your masculine breed speaks and reeks, of all filth and garbage as sacrosanct baggage.

Trap yourself into the abyss, enlarge your gazing eyes for hypocrites, for you are one

Not of many, but the primary one, for all you know is to force someone to work and lurk for you,

Jerk and shatter their hearts,

In majestic flights, it takes the beam of light,

For your route to darkness,

As the sun flares its glares so strongly.

You fiercely hit yourself with the glare, turning you into char and gold,

For the remains of you is somebody’s inferior coal.

To be lit till all of it burnt and powered the trains of abode

Like you used infants to enlarge your inhuman road.

(Cosmic Context is a section where I explain my poem a bit more)

This poem is a little difficult to digest as the theme involves human trafficking. In the developing world, still, the most underdeveloped and undeveloped spaces in these countries especially with orphans and impoverished children are captured and then sold off as house help, prostitutes, or laborers to many networking agents that further sell them off to the highest bidder. This poem is all about reflection and looking deep into our own conscience if what is happening is even remotely decent and just. If it is then we need to reassess the ideals of human dignity and a life of self-respect..

Thanks a lot for taking some precious time out of your schedule to read my work. If you like it, you can read some of the other poems I have linked below. I hope you have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!!!

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