She comes from the abyss She is an Abyssinian maid <br />a damsel with a dulcimer <br />She appears in every heart whenever she lists <br />and then vanishes <br />She possesses you whenever she chooses <br />But when you seek to possess her <br />she gives you the slip <br /> <br />Do you want to enter into the wilderness of your heart <br />and seek her and hunt her? <br />That will be a sacrilege <br />A body is not worth a penny <br />It costs you a pound to send it to the morgue <br /> <br />Kill the swan that lays a golden egg everyday at your door <br />You won't get golden eggs any <br />more <br />The eggs already in the refriegerator will lose their hue <br />and putefaction will set in <br /> <br />There is a widespread rumour that she has been killed <br />The American warheads never miss their targets <br />But that is not true <br />The poem hunters espy her now and then <br />in the moonblanched greens as well as in kitchens <br />and at dinner parties <br />But you cannot possess her <br />Nor can you revive hersong <br />One of the finest hunters among us tried to do that <br />Right then a creditor knocked at his door <br /> <br />Each one of us must pay Caesar hisdue and God his due <br />And only then the damsel with dulcimer will hold us with her hand <br />and carry us past the clouds and past the moon <br /> <br />True the poemhunters cannot revive her song <br />But their poems are the explicatio of the same <br />from n; angles <br />The authors are dead but the one author is always there <br />The poem hunters tell us about the author-the damsel with a dulcimer <br />And they tell us of the abyss whence she comes <br />t<br /><br />Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-damsel/
