I did have a dream,
not the dream to walk on the ramp or on the red carpet,
or to be bracketed with Freida.
Never dreamt of becoming
princes of the fairyland,
and marrying the prince
or to have the world as my oyster.
I did have a dream,
a dream to wipe out a
tear from my Baba's eye.
in the twilight years of his life,
who would now never
wait for me to return
to the middle class flat
in the periphery of Delhi's
affluent urban suburb,
I did have a dream
to see a glow on Maa's eyes,
but alas the cruel hands of capricious
grid smothered me
and silenced my
last words to
to my revered
Baba and Maa.
Rup Narayan Das
[Jigisha was a young IT professional, who was brutally killed in 2009 in Delhi]