MAHISHASURA : SONNET 169

Mahishasura

Sonnet 169

When young, one year, I saw the Demon dying,

As the Trident of the goddess Durga

Into his stoney body deeply piercing:

An art the 'medha' play'd on Dussehra

Though, my tiny heart was cheery with

Loads of relief the Devil's at last dead

And gone were threats on life! But came the myth

Next year, to find; as raised the Brute his head

To fight the Goddess and to die again --

The repeat that happens every year,

Just for few days to falsely entertain

The people's soul engulfed in inbred fear,

For the Brute ain't dead behind the art,

In our brutish mind and brutish heart.

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