Friday, November 13, 2020

Of What use Dharma?, Janaki asks

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You talk of Dharma, Ramchandar.

Rajyasi Dharma. Is that the only Dharma 

There is?


Are you not required, as a husband,

To protect your woman? Your wife. Well,

You failed.


Even if I had been violated, 

It would still not have been my fault.

Would it?


I did not ask to be abducted, did I?

Why must I be asked to prove

My chastity?


Do you not have the courage

To stand by me. Is it not your Dharma to 

Defend me?


You can keep your Dharma, 

It is of no use, if when I most need you, 

You fail.


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