Of The Ramayana And Ramlila Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Ramayana and Ramlila,
What to say about it,
Ramayana reciters reciting the passages
In the morning or the evening,
Ramayana scholars
Taking it far,
How to debate and discuss it?

If the filmy Sita can take to a cigar
After the filming or shooting is over,
What to say it,
The tailed man boxing
As Hanuman,
But the real hanuman gnashing the teeth
And grinning.

Why will Lakshmana cut the nose
Of Surpanakha
Which but I cannot accept it,
Was she from elsewhere
Which but I do not know it,
Was Ravana not a scholar
And a great Shiva-bhakta?

Was Sita a Maithili
Or a Nepali region girl,
Was Rama not guilty
Taking the fire test
Of Sita
A t the behest of the complaint
Of the washerman?

Hanumanji's heart torn
And shown
With the names of
Ram and Sita written
A lesson in loyalty
And faithfulness,
Things allegorical.

But in the modern age
People read it not the Ramayana
As they used to in the past,
In this age of nuclear family,
Broken joint families,
Brothers separated from brothers,
Parents left in the old age homes.

Was Dashrath himself happy,
Had Kaikeyi been not
A troublemaker
Wanting to make her son
To be the king of Ayodhya,
A typical family of
Typical relations?