My Poems-4

THE STORY OF

SIDHARTHA RETOLD

Then sidhartha

Entered the apartment of yashodhara

Eyed the sleeping wife and son

And mounted on kantaka

Leaving no lotus behind.

On each gallop he heard

The sulphurous sigh of a mother.

On and on he heard sal tree

Crying like an infant

But sidhartha resisted temptation.

Then sidhartha

Passed through magadha to reach uruvela,

Where beneath a pipal tree

He fought against mara

To win the realm of enlightenment.

neither temptation nor enlightenment

Provoked Devadatta-his cousin;

But the pangs of a destitute mother-

The ceaseless cry of a fatherless baby

So he was consumed by flames.

But the spirit dies never

And the spirit of Devadatta lives for ever-

It took the form of a mushroom

To become the last supper

Served to the octogenarian.

Here no parallels are allowed

By the judiciary of deathless spirits

So Christ was crucified

Socrates poisoned

So also Budha died.

C.T. William

REFERENCE 

*Line no.2-Sidhartha’s wife.

*Line no.4-Sidhartha’s horse.

*Line no.5-Budhist mythology says that where Budha the child, touched, there will spring a lotus.

*Line no.14-According to Budhist mythology, Devadatta, the rival of Budha was consumed by flames.

*Line no.23-It is said that Budha died of food poison. He was food-poisoned by mushroom.

*Line no.25-Budha died at his eightieth year.