“Ravana! Oh! Brother Ravana! <br />See me, your sister, your blood, your own <br />Insulted, injured and mocked – all <br />Because of my love for you. <br />A beauty there stood, Sita <br />Blessed gain, better than all boons <br />To make her your handmaid <br />I went and enquired for you <br />But, look this was my gain <br />Insult, reprimand, injury and threat <br />Such affronts made against me <br />Me, no, not me but, against you <br />Lankeswara! Do men fear you no more <br />Have you become complacent? <br />Arrogant he was, that Rama <br />With anger he paled like the moon <br />He spoke, yes! “out you go” he ordered <br />The very recollection gives me pain <br />And to his aid rushed Lakshmana <br />Who cut my nose a bit too soon <br />Or, Sita herself I would have asked <br />And brought her here across the Maine. <br />Why do you stare? It is I, Surpanake! <br />Your strange hesitation makes me swoon <br />Was it for you I sought a bride and bled? <br />Better if on those sylvan glades I was slain.” <br />“No, No! it is not so, sister dear, <br />Their life is now mine alone, <br />Sita from them would be separated <br />And my bridal garlands their very veins.” <br />Saying arose Ravana Mighty King of Lanka <br />A wind rustled among the sylvan glades <br />Where Rama was sporting with beautiful Sita <br />And the hoofs of the Golden Deer Mareesa <br />Parted the green grass walking towards them! <br /> <br />[Rama rejected the love of Surpanaka, sister of Ravana. The version of Surpanaka's story as told to Ravana in half truths and bare lies, manipulating his brotherly affection, kindling his lust for a married woman - Sita, fanning hatred and being one of the reasons for the epic story of Ramayana being created, written with poetic license]<br /><br />Angelina Pandian<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-cause-4/
