Hijdas on Christmas Eve Day
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Outside the St Peters Chrurch Bandra Hill Road
The Hijdas stand in reverence on Christmas Eve Day
knowing the good parishioners will come out
and pay -charity a Christian virtue like prayer
broken bodies of human pain they bare
a god given tragedy they have no money to repair
clapping their androgynous hands in the air
transgenders are human like me and you
a convulted contorted emotional erosion
personal in nature who cares
perhaps Jesus Christ lying in his crib
looks at them than at the clergy
the Rock of St Peter
a castrated silence
chaotic spirtual commotion
that as humans we share
some cry they have no shoes
some cry they have no feet
who stand on stilts of prosthetics
without the need of footwear
