DEVIATION : SONNET 76

Fast arousing physical impulses

Released the wild instinct of bestiality,

The holding sentinels of human senses 

Defended the refuge of morality:

In between youth and aged ran my love --

Passion propelling, reason controlling --

In fuel of licit consciousness I drove

Along least trodden path for balance struggling...

On one side was the devil, God on the other --

One pulling me leftward, one pulling rightward;

I stood the tug ere I tumbled to the former,

That ruin'd forever the love of this nomad:

So tempting was the charm of the forbidden fruit,

That I no heed did deviate from the route !!

-- N. P. SAMAL