Originally posted by: karkuzhali
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">The story goes...</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">What a fantastic cloth Lashy has woven</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">With the finest threads best chosen</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Like a Sari with magnificent designs</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Embroidered with delicate work that shines.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">We expected the meeting to take place</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Between the lead pairs all with grace</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">What happened between them was emotional</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">As poets would describe it as something devotional..</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">What happened to her on that morning,</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Would not happen to any young girl in mourning</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">What happened to the messages to the Rajahs?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Why have I not got reply from my jijah?</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Clever and smart enough an heiress is she</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">She guessed something that smelt fishy</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Suspecting some spying going around Aidabad</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">By the cruel Kalil, who was the Shezaadi's right hand..</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Poor girl! Ignorant of what Kunwar was planning about </font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Writes a letter to him stating her whereabouts..</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Planning to send it the next day secretly</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">And to make it reach the hands of him discreetly..</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">The poor girl later sought a place under a tree</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">With tears in her eyes thinking about her jiji</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">What a dramatic turn when he saw her from a distance</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Nothing else mattering him but for her presence</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">His anxiety towards her made his friends suspect</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">His strange behaviour though they never intended to dissect</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">He neared her and she asked him about his health</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">His heart melt when he heard about her jiji's death</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">And he strangely felt a feeling of guilt</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">That brought down his pride he had strongly built</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">He gave her his kerchief to wipe her tears</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">She chilled him with words that rang in his ears...</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">"Why God gives, if he wants to take away?"</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">She poured out her mind that gave her away</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">"Surrounded by many yet feeling alone finally</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">No relationship will fill this void so very easily.."</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Left alone late in the night, the poor girl wavered</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Between logic and temptation, to think about the scene she savoured</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Temptation succeeded, hiding behind excuses</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Will logic with temptation play the deuce?</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">He didn't find any such excuse to choose</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Having led a life of a recluse</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Logic made him drive her from his mind</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">But the thought of to be with her in another life to find</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Love is not a bed of roses people say</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">What would happen to them if they fail to find a way..</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Let us sit as usual with our fingers crossed</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Waiting for the author to unravel the mysteries crisscrossed..</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Karkuzhali.</font>
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