HIS NEMESIS

Recently
in our neighbourhood
a local thug
a confirmed drunkard he was
smelling of nauseating
country liquor
woke up his sleeping
wife and three children
late into the night
beat them up mercilessly
hurled blows on them
twisted the hands and
fingers of wife and children
till they cried out of
excruciating pain.
With cigarette butts
he burnt their faces
and bodies
and on watching them
writhing in pain
he gave out a beastily
laugh
his ferocious eyes turned
into two red glowing balls
nobody in the
neighbourhood dared question
him
all but gritted their teeth
sitting in their shells.
He came out of the
house like a victorious warrior.
Meanwhile a gang wearing masks
surrounded him with lethal
weapons
finished him within
minutes
and vanished into the darkness
thus ended a dark chapter
it all happened recently.