Eight year old daughter

Of a poor Shepard family

Who loved to dance freely

With the galloping horses

And to sing melodiously

With the chirping birds

Became the prey

Of sexual predators

Who left her dead and naked

In the bare arms of

Wailing Mother Earth

Clouds from all directions

Rushed to the valley

Washed her body

With their tear drops

And laid it to rest

Covered with petals

Brought by the winds of humanity.

Hardarshan Singh Valia

02/23/2020