Teesta Review: A
Journal of Poetry, Volume 4, Number 1. May 2021. ISSN: 2581-7094
Tale of a Prince
The Prince of Jungle
Born with connatural,
To rule the kingdom
With his own wisdom
Which he gained
From history, he learned
Not by reading books
But by listening
semi-truths
Spread by the minimal
Over more equal animals
Living on an island
Nearby the forest land
Of which the Prince
Becomes the new king
By climbing
The stairs of Promise.
The older Prince
Becomes the new King
And starts ruling his
kingdom
With his inherent wisdom
But unfortunately,
There was a folly
Inside the older Prince
Who now became the king
After aeons
Of painting with
different crayons.
Also, in the light of
semi-truths
The king missed those
truths
Written in books of
history
Not one, two or three
But hundreds or
thousands
Or even more than ten
thousands.
The ten thousand history
books
Contains many cruel
truths
That shouldn’t be
repeated again
But like the continuous
rain
The new King too failed.
The new King of the
Jungle
Too failed to bungle
While glorifying his
empire
With his apparent
conspire.
He failed like a dead
To modify modern aid
Which he promised
To every young mind
Dreamt of leaving
Their old legacy behind.
He failed to understand
The necessity of
Greenland
Which his jungle dreamt
off
But his blunt wisdom
Had decorated his
kingdom
With beautiful painted
palaces
Required to cover the
traces
Of his unskilled
footsteps
He stepped with his
courtiers
To expand his
Authoritarian
With his self created
Unitarian.