You, My Demon Who Delights in Dancing Poem by N.D Rajkumar
Original text of Poem
You, My Demon Who Delights in Dancing
By- N.D Rajkumar
You, my Demon who delights in dancing
on the wound bearing trees, from which
childless fairies hang upside down, rejoicing
You , who strode in here bearing your sword
And the lustre of your might, entered
these demons broke them with your frenetic
Dancing and thereby came to your senses-
Thrash them out and bring back our fragrant
medicinal herb which they ha stolen from us.
Look, it's heading this way, that holy cow . they've sent here to knock us down
Here, lay it down in the central bay
Of our house, tear open in its belly, pull out
it's entrails, and place them in a row
of small heaps, O the mother- goddess
Of my malankaadu: I ruler of this jungle, am here
Lay out the votive feast of meat today for our
primal gods, incarnated in these totemic stones
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