Saturday 18 June 2011

A Pandit's Wail in Vale

In the forlorn alleys of vale Kashmir,
I found a pandit aged and non-descript,
moving with an unsteady gait and despair,
entering an abandoned house here there and afar,
looking for every broken door and window,
striking his brow with hand and palm in fold,
moving up in stairs with countless spider cobwebs,
dust falling in bucketfuls on his disheveled hair,
a shriek and gloomy wail whistled past his frame,
a frightened pandit saw strange movements of a cat and bat in tow,
what a calamity befell on pandits of vale!
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