Valmiki(9) Poem by Binayakumar Mohanty

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

O' poet!
why regret!

For your Bhil playmates
didn't invite You
to their den
as you belonged to
a different clan.

For they valued
your ascetic way
aphrodisiac diet
not for you, pollute you
it may.

For they had
to go on a rhino hunt
they wanted you not
kill your sagely trust.

Between your clan and theirs
You could see no gap
So you were hurriedly
from your nap.

For you valued friendship more
than your austerity culture.

Knowing not what might happen then
with non veg party of the Bhil friends
You did join.

Was it the dusk of
your darker venture?
You put there
your first signature.

Why so repentance?
why a penance?
Is it so big a menace?