Saturday, December 28, 2019

Sagacious


A King once floated one deliberation,
To its Assemblage & wherever it reached;
Whoever comes, dictate gateway to tenet,
Not prose or verbose but in single quote speech.

Went several to amaze from within & afar,
Uttered pages verbatim, learnt decreed;
But not in quote or speech as craved,
One contended another who came to teach.

The Ruler kept gazing as days passed,
To administer its land from east to west;
Entered sage with bag on one shoulder, bare feet,
Sans greeting King before leaving uttered words in zest.

“For one shalt Equate all Lands with Jungle,
And who Rules must Never succumb to Any;
Whatever that equates ‘Even’, AS Jungle’s also inhabited,
With Hyenas too, as selfsame Misuse & NOT Many;
Else what Nurtured would be Lost eventually,
One by One, if further succumbed to reflections of Contrived Adversary.”

© Pranav Chaturvedi 2019