Elephant And Land Lord Poem by Chandra sekharan

Arrogant, aristocratic land lord
Had one dozen majestic elephants
With big tusks and trunk
Tiny eyes and tail
Disproportionate to their dark, big body
Several mahouts were deployed
To tame tuskers
They were forced to swallow
Sumptuous food
Big banana plantains, leaves of several trees
Land lord was very lavish
In exhausting wealth for welfare
Of big animals
He was miser for servants, mahouts and other dependants
Once a bearded, stooping
Starving man with torn clothes
Appeared near the massive gate
Landlord was standing in the huge portico
And enjoying playful behavior of well-fed elephants
Landlord on seeing the beggar like man near the gate
Ordered watchmen
To untie German Sheppard’s
Dogs leapt barking towards the helpless poor man
Was biting and slicing him into pieces
And landlord burst into laughter
Enjoying the barbaric torture meted out to the poor man
Landlord again commanded all the dogs to return
They obediently did and their master appreciated this act
All the elephants lost their joyful mood
Stood silently, shedding tears
One elephant was so sad that
It struggled hard and broke from thick chain tied to the stone pillar
It ran towards smiling landlord
Pierced his bulging belly with sharp tusks
Land lord collapsed oozing out
Fountain like blood
Elephant raised his trunk towards sky and roared
Entire area reverberated
Ferocious, he swirled his trunk
Sucked up bleeding body of lord
Swung and slashed against tall column of portico
Body of landlord almost dead was dumped on the ground
And then
Stamped and crushed his head to death.