CASTRATED CRY OF A HIJDA

CASTRATED CRY OF A HIJDA
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“And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? / Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.”

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Not withstanding The Da Vinci Code and other sensationalistic books written for the gullible, Jesus was certainly celibate. When one adds that Jesus' opponents slandered him; that 'eunuch' was sometimes a word of abuse hurled at unmarried men; and that Jesus, like Paul after him, regularly picked up opponents' rebukes, imaginatively remade them, and then handed them back, we may think this: Jesus, upon being jeered as a castrate, responded by inventing a new class of eunuchs, one established by and for heaven." (Dale Allison, The Luminous Dusk, p 69)

He was a young boy
His parents were dead
His uncle had sold him
To the hijdas that’s
What he said
They castrated him
Hands and legs spread
Tied to a perspiring
Frightened bed
They placed
A wire round his testicles
The fan going
Round and round overhead
The pain the hot oil
He lost consciousness
He was dead
They made him drink
Lots of water
His genitals
A hollow bleeding and red
For hours hungry unfed
The agony
Transformation
From boy to woman
To hijda instead
Bhauchara mata
The hijda goddess
Prayers
His novitiate
He followed
Clapping his hands
They led
From train to train
Begging alms
Seeing them
Even the cops sped
Pooja Guru
His mother
His spiritual head
He was called chela
He was made to
Sleep with the local goon
The cops the politics
Thus he earned his bread
He sat down side lit
I took his picture
He all coy blushed
Touched me and fled
castrated cry of a hijda
unwed