A Third of Triple

Mujeeb Jaihoon on the Triple-Talaq triumphant Indian Muslim women’s appeal on the sad plight of her male relatives killed in mob lynching.

‘They celebrate my win
With joyful wine
And wipe my tears
As their pain

Such love showered
On me as rain
My own kin before them
Like Cain

I have to my Triple-friends
But one appeal
True if your love is
For my awful ordeal

If not triple, nor
Even double be your feel

At least a third
Of sympathy
I beg for my kin
They mob-kill’

Aug 23 2017. Edit Sep 2024