The Hjras at Churchgate

The Hjras at Churchgate, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

the hijras
at churchgate
endlessly
they wait
searching
for love
searching
for hope
searching
for peace
in a confused
state
to be or not
to be hijras
they debate
in a world
of hijra hate
to become
women
their inner soul
castrate
a line
optically
crooked
not straight
their androgynous
ethos
they wont vacate
a pretentious
martyred motherhood
that wont lactate
a missing clitoris
a missing vagina
a testicular tragedy
they mutate
they wont
menstruate
a falling birthrate
no mandate
their angst
a street poet
narrates
without
a womb
they populate
from one city
to another
on broken wings
they migrate
they are shunned
they are ostracized
they are humiliated
their fucked fate
damned forever
as a sanctimonious
society's
dead weight
a criminal law
section 377
uses them
as fodder
as jail bait
the hijras
lost paradise
is at hells gate
here on earth
or above
but always
in dire
straits