Valmiki(8) Poem by Binayakumar Mohanty

(Valmiki the great Indian sage who narrated epic Ramayan once lived sinful life of well known bandit Ratnakar.
Here in this poem the plot, contents and characters are completely fictional bearing no resemblance with anything mythological.)


O'great sage!
O'dear poet!
No repentance, No penance
For you're
grown up to age
but still had no means
to forage
no livelihood proper
even though have one
for an ant and a grasshopper.

For You couldn't coexist
with sages and seers
couldn't share
resources with
farmers and warriors.

As you're not one
among the book swallowers
but a thought seer
You had a novel face
you're removed
from the race.

For You're condemned
by the mother who
once loved you so
for you're penny less
Your father, though a sage
loved you less
was reluctant to acclaim
no longer as before for him
you're a gem.

The friends did reproach
lovers in the cottage groove
started avoiding much.

Was it your fault?
O' poet!

Why so repentance?
Why a penance
for so little a sin?
It was the dusk
on your Voyage,
O'great sage!
To an Island of eerie
where you couldn't find a ferry.

No regret
O' great poet.