Amanat

when air holds dear treasure

smoke climbs into ancient's heavens

where today we see
much deeper into miracles of existence,
we of our small round world

When air is the last place we see

precious life, in residues of hopes,

in dreams of luxuries, in unspent love;

through heavy hearts and watered eyes

lifted to memory, and rich skies, so poor

are we, to stand and see – a brutal  taking of beauty.

Amanat they now say, only a few days

from a time when the treasure smiled

felt the touch of heavy air, busy air

street airs, breath of those come near with love

breath of those come near…without welcome

When love was easy and violence crept

while a nation so oddly slept, mindless

accepting; the unlucky caste(--) now

revealed in the way we see a worthless thing(--)

a treasure- Amanat of clouds, Amanat

of grieving, Amanat of the hopeful

and fear has a brief holiday, a harder day
soon to come, in last blessing from…Amanat



Amanat  an Urdu word meaning treasure.  The name given to a young woman
whose brutal rape and murder had caused a world wide  focus  on the condition of
women in India, the lack of safety and due process of law.